Crammed with charged DNA, pressure rises inside virus

It could be an artist’s depiction of someone’s stomach before and after a rather decadent meal. But it is a 3-D cryoelectron microscope reconstruction of the cross-section of a virus, before and after cramming itself full of its own DNA.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news100257213.html">Crammed with charged DNA, pressure rises inside virus</a></p> <p>It could be an artist’s depiction of someone’s stomach before and after a rather decadent meal. But it is a 3-D cryoelectron microscope reconstruction of the cross-section of a virus, before and after cramming itself full of its own DNA.</p>