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Viruses in the Spotlight
(A) A model of a virus-like particle of the HPV vaccine in which recombinant L1 proteins assemble into pentamers, which in turn form particles (image courtesy of Mark Feinberg, Merck & Co, Inc.).
(B) HIV particles (artificially colored red) budding from a CD4+ T lymphocyte (image courtesy of David Hockley and Robin A. Weiss).
