nCoV physics: the Nucleocapsid

[Vincera]

""A crucial early step in the coronavirus’s construction is carried out by a protein called nucleocapsid, which wrangles the virus’s RNA into a tight conformation and holds it in place, so it can be more easily packaged.""

nytimes.com

If You Squeeze the Coronavirus, Does It Shatter? (Published 2021)

Scientists are exploring the physics of viruses, to understand how these pathogens assemble themselves — and might be rent apart.