As the global coronavirus pandemic continues, scientists are not only trying to find vaccines and drugs to combat it, but also to continuously learn more about the virus itself. "By now we can expect the coronavirus to become seasonal," explains Ralf Bartenschlager, professor in the Department of Infectious Diseases, Molecular Virology, at Heidelberg University. "Thus, there is an urgent need to develop and implement both prophylactic and therapeutic strategies against this virus." In a new study, Bartenschlager, assisted by the Schwab team at EMBL Heidelberg and using EMBL's Electron Microscopy Core Facility, performed a detailed imaging analysis to determine how the virus reprograms infected cells.