https://phys.org/news/2018-11-physicists-large-spherical-viruses.html

A team of physicists and a virologist, led by a scientist at the University of California, Riverside, has now published a research paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences explaining how large virus shells are formed.  Their work can also be used to explain how large spherical crystals form in nature.

This understanding may help researchers interrupt viruses' formation, containing the spread of viral diseases.