Putting the brakes on "budding" viruses (IMAGE)

La Jolla Institute for Immunology

Putting the brakes on "budding" viruses

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This image shows how viral proteins gather inside a cell membrane to form a sort of bubble before "budding" off to spread infection.

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Michael Norris, Ph.D.

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