Viral infections are a serious health challenge, and the COVID-19 pandemic has increased
the demand for antiviral measures and treatments for clean surfaces, especially in public …

Multi‐catalytic cascade reactions bear a great potential to minimize downstream and
purification steps, leading to a drastic reduction of the produced waste. In many examples …

The worrying rise of antibiotic resistance in pathogenic bacteria is leading to a renewed
interest in bacteriophages as a treatment option. Novel sequencing technologies enable …

Viruses are nanosized, genome-filled protein containers with remarkable thermodynamic
and mechanical properties. They form by spontaneous self-assembly inside the crowded …

Plants produce a wide range of secondary metabolites that play vital roles for their primary
functions such as growth, defence, adaptations or reproduction. Some of the plant …

A molecular motor is made of either a single macromolecule or a macromolecular complex.
Just like their macroscopic counterparts, molecular motors “transduce” input energy into …

Viruses are incapable of autonomous energy production. Although many experimental
studies make it clear that viruses are parasitic entities that hijack the molecular resources of …

Viruses are spherical or complex shaped carriers of proteins, nucleic acids and sometimes
lipids and sugars. They are metastable and poised for structural changes. These features …

A string of nucleotides confined within a protein capsid contains all the instructions
necessary to make a functional virus particle, a virion. Although the structure of the protein …

The advent of nanoscience and nanotechnology and the development of atomic force
microscopy and other single-molecule techniques are leading to a renewed look at viruses …