When all you’ve got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And when you’ve got a scanning electron microscope, everything must look like a sample that would be really, really interesting ...

and Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEM), which scan the sample’s surface to produce detailed 3D images. EMs provide exceptional magnification, allowing for the observation of objects at the molecular ...

Prestigious British journal Nature has named McMaster University’s pictures of flowerlike formations of microbial viruses that eat bacteria among this year’s top science images. Researchers made the ...

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Institute of Biological Sciences, Department of Microbiology, Belo Horizonte, Brazil ...

The structure of viruses is discussed and illustrated by photographs taken by means of the electron microscope. Among the chapter headings are “Viruses and Tumours” and “Combating the ...

but they pop under scanning electron microscopy (SEM) examination. Aratrika Chakraborty, a scientist at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia, says the images she gathered are helping ...

Transmission electron microscopy is a general type of electron microscopy that generates an image of the internal structure of a thin sample using a beam of electrons to achieve much higher ...

For the first time, scientists mapped the atomic-scale interactions of influenza’s RNA-protein double-helix shield using cryo ...

A patient has been hospitalized with the first confirmed severe bird flu case in the US. The case was announced by the ...

A patient in Louisiana was hospitalized after a recent exposure with the CDC issuing guidance to those most at-risk of infection.

Over 800 million people have genital herpes — and in many cases the virus can flare up over a person's lifetime, causing ...