Mycobacteria are the world's most deadly bacteria --c ausing infectious diseases including tuberculosis (TB), which alone kills more than one million people each year. New drugs to fight these ...

(See “Discovering Archaea, 1977,” The Scientist, March 2014) Even though viruses were by that time visible using electron microscopes, they were left off the tree of life because they did ... Lab ...

Discover how a structural breakthrough in the chikungunya virus is opening new avenues for antiviral drug development and ...

This deadly virus, which causes severe hemorrhagic ... in the journal Nature Communications. "Using cryo-electron microscopy, we were able to view the nucleocapsid structure at 4.6 angstrom ...

Six years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa had people fearing the possibility of a global outbreak. This was the first time many had ever heard of the virus, ...

Cryoelectron microscopy ... by electron microscopy. Specimens remain in their native state without the need for dyes or fixatives, allowing the study of fine cellular structures, viruses and ...

Researchers had been studying the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii for decades without seeing evidence of an active virus ...

Until recently the electron microscope could make these small organisms visible only if they were isolated. Now an ingenious technique of preparation reveals them in their natural habitat ...

University of Manchester scientists have produced the world’s most powerful optical microscope, which could help understand the causes of many viruses and diseases. Writing in the journal Nature ...

such as the TEAM (transmission electron aberration-corrected microscope) project in the United States. The collection of articles in this Insight aims to illustrate what, in our view, are the most ...