{"id":91447,"date":"2019-05-30T16:22:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T23:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/unveiling-how-the-genome-has-condensed-itself-inside-the-virus"},"modified":"2019-05-30T16:22:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T23:22:20","slug":"unveiling-how-the-genome-has-condensed-itself-inside-the-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/unveiling-how-the-genome-has-condensed-itself-inside-the-virus","title":{"rendered":"Unveiling how the genome has condensed itself inside the virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unveiling-how-the-genome-has-condensed-itself-inside-the-virus2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the University of Helsinki working in collaboration with the University of Oxford have deciphered for the first time how a virus genome is condensed inside the capsid of a virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe motivation of the study was to increase our basic understanding of viral replication, but in the long term this may contribute to tackling viral disease,\u201d says the director of the of the project, Associate Professor Juha Huiskonen from the Helsinki Institute of Life Science, HiLIFE.<\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough results were achieved using cryogenic electron microscopy, a method that has in recent years revolutionised <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/structural+biology\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">structural biology<\/a>\u2014a field of biology that aims to understand how molecules of life work at the atomic level.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-05-unveiling-genome-condensed-virus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the University of Helsinki working in collaboration with the University of Oxford have deciphered for the first time how a virus genome is condensed inside the capsid of a virus. \u201cThe motivation of the study was to increase our basic understanding of viral replication, but in the long term this may contribute to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}