A Nobel Prize-winning technology reveals that the cancer killer virus attacks the target as a "key in a lock"

Last year, a state-of-the-art scientific imaging technology called cryo-electronic microscopy won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which the committee described as "revolutionary in biochemistry". This technique allows scientists to visualize for the first time biomolecules in their natural state. A year later, there are some exciting opportunities for us. Scientists are now using it to image with unprecedented detail a high-potential cancer virus, which now allows them to think about how it could be genetically engineered to do the job better.