(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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