Elad Harel is used to shining a light on the mysteries of the natural world. Working at the cutting-edge of ultrafast ...

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 ...

Norovirus is a highly contagious virus that spreads via contaminated ... Medics first discovered noroviruses in 1972 using an electron microscope. Since then, they've found a large variety of ...

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 ...

Aa Aa Aa Viruses are the smallest microorganisms ... Caveolae are small invaginations of the cell's plasma membrane. Under the electron microscope, caveolae look to be flask-shape pits about ...

Modern super-resolution microscopes ... % of T4 viruses to stand upright on microscope slides, making measurements more consistent. The imaging revealed both the hollow structure of T4's capsid and ...

The Sudan virus, a close relative of Ebola, has a fatality rate of 50% but remains poorly understood in terms of how it infects cells. Currently, no approved treatments exist.

Imagine a city under constant threat ... Zorya system can directly fight off viruses without killing the bacterial cell," says Taylor. "Using cryo-electron microscopy, we looked at the structure ...

This is a leaf surface under a scanning electron microscope. Both types of electron ... a better understanding of how pathogens, such as viruses, invade cells, like these HIV particles budding ...