Insect viruses that cause polyhedrosis produce infectious microcrystals within a cell. These inclusions were used in a study that pushed the state of the crystallographic art to explain their exceptional stability.
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Rey, F. Holed up in a natural crystal. Nature 446, 35–36 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/446035a
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