The existing microscopes which have the capacity to examine tiny items – electron microscopes – can only see the surface of a cell rather than examining its structure and there is no tool to see a ...

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 ...

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 ...