They now spontaneously assemble into rods which press against the membrane of the red blood cell deforming it from a rounded into a sickle shape.
Accepted forms of life use cell division to reproduce, whereas viruses spontaneously assemble within cells.
In the lab, they exhibit another amazing property - the ability to assemble spontaneously into structures seen in living tissues.
"The leader's coming," "The leader's coming," they say, and spontaneously assemble in a corridor.
People assemble seemingly spontaneously in dozens of cities throughout the world.
For instance, in Tokyo, crowds of teenage fans would assemble seemingly spontaneously at subway stops where a rock musician was rumored to be headed.
At slightly higher (but still low) concentration, amphiphilic molecules will spontaneously assemble into micelles or vesicles.
The fascist event, she says, is a "scripted" spectacle and those attending "did not assemble spontaneously but were rounded up."
For fascist events, people "did not assemble spontaneously"; but in another context it is the authentic carnival events that "were not spontaneous outbreaks."
The head capsids, constructed separately, will spontaneously assemble with the tails.