The RTL6 proteins, shown in green, guard the mouse brain capillaries (the branch-like structures in black) against “infection” by clustering around the magenta-colored bacterial mimic. Credit: Tomoko Kaneko-Ishino From the common cold to COVID-19, viruses have a massive impact on our day-to-day lives, but infections that occurred millions of ...
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