A new combination of microscopy methods has revealed exquisite detail of the virus assembly process used by herpes simplex virus during replication. The research, published today in eLife, is ...

A new study finds that differences in the symptoms of herpes could be due to variations in the way certain strains of herpes simplex (HSV-1) – the virus that causes cold sores, as well as genital ...

Some of you probably know this already, but there’s actually more than one kind of electron microscope. In electronics work, the scanning electron microscope (SEM) is the most common.

Much like the traditional scanning electron microscope (SEM), the field emission scanning electron microscope uses electrons to illuminate a sample, instead of visible light as is used in optical ...