Virus structure revealed

摘要

After 12 years of research and several failed attempts, scientists have revealed the structure of a human adenovirus, a move which may lead to more effective gene therapy and new anti-viral drugs. Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute used a range of different techniques to obtain crystals of the adenovirus - a process which took several years of experimenting under different conditions - before attempting to study their structure with x-ray crystallography.