(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The scanning electron ... a light microscope, and can produce images of up to 500,000 times greater magnification. The SEM can generate precise images of organisms as tiny as viruses and ...