Safer and more broadly effective rotavirus vaccines could be achieved if initial investigations 1 into the boosting effect of plant-derived virus-like particles hold up in further trials.

Influenza A virus particles strategically adapt their shape—to become either spheres or larger filaments—to favor their ability to infect cells depending on environmental conditions, according to a ...

the researchers grew black-eyed pea plants in the lab and infected them with cowpea mosaic virus. Millions of copies of the virus were grown and harvested in the form of ball-shaped nanoparticles ...