The first giant virus to be identified, called Mimivirus (short for microbe mimicking virus ), was discovered in 2003 inside ...

Jyvaskylavirus is detailed in a study recently published in eLife, and named for Jyväskylä, the Finnish city where it was ...

For the first time in Finland, researchers at the Nanoscience Center in University of Jyväskylä, Finland, have isolated a ...

This giant virus has a much larger size and bigger genome than any other known virus. Analysis of this intriguing virus may shed light on basic questions of viral evolution and, perhaps ...

For example, the protein shell of a virus will stop growing when it becomes a sphere or tube of a certain diameter. "Because we can't control the structure size in artificial self-assembly ...

Previous efforts to circumvent the problem of the size limitation imposed by the AAV vector have focused mainly on altering the candidate genes into ‘mini-expression cassettes’ suitable for ...