THE introduction of a technique for cutting ultra-thin sections of biological tissue with the conventional microtome1 has also made feasible the sectioning of isolated cells for the electron ...

Cryo-electron microscopy has exposed the structure of a bacterial virus with unprecedented detail. This is the first structure of a virus able to infect Staphylococcus epidermidis, and high ...

Scientists have identified a new type of protein in bacteria that could change our understanding of how these organisms ...

Through cryo-electron microscopy analysis, ... The bundles are evidently anchored in the inner membrane of the bacterial cell and span almost its entire width. Dr.

Cryo-electron microscopy by University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers has exposed the structure of a bacterial virus with unprecedented detail. This is the first structure of a virus able to ...

Scientists have studied a new target for antibiotics in the greatest detail yet—in the fight against antibiotic resistance.

False color scanning electron micrograph of ''Vibrio vulnificus'' bacteria. Source - CDC/James Gathany (PHIL #7815). Public Domain False color scanning electron micrograph of ''Vibrio vulnificus ...

Scientists who have described in a new study the step-by-step details of a bacterial defense strategy see the mechanism as a ...

A unique “flat” dimeric structure of bacterial photosynthetic reaction centre-light harvesting membrane complexes discovered by state-of-the-art cryogenic electron microscopy. Researchers at ...