From Measles Tragedy to Molecular Insight: How VR Structural Biology Changes the Way We See Vaccines

From Measles Tragedy to Molecular Insight: How VR Structural Biology Changes the Way We See Vaccines I read the headline on a rainy Tuesday in upstate New York: a child, unvaccinated, had died of measles — the first such death in the state in thirty years. The article listed the usual statistics, the vaccination gap, the preventable nature of the disease. But what stuck with me was the quiet line about the virus’s two glycoproteins, hemagglutinin (H) and fusion protein (F), and how neutralizing antibodies latch onto specific epitopes. I’ve spent years staring at ribbon diagrams on a 27‑inch mo