Creating virus-like particles for drug delivery

 
By M R N Murthy & H S Savithri
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Many years ago, in the 1990s, we at the Molecular Biophysics Unit and the Department of Biochemistry of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, determined the three-dimensional structures of two plant viruses. We are the only group working on structure of viruses in India so far. Only about a dozen laboratories across the world have deciphered the complete structure of viruses.
More recently, we used our underst