A Canadian teen is hospitalized in critical condition with what is believed to be bird flu. British Columbia health officials ...

The electron microscope reveals that these infectious particles possess three principal types of symmetry. Each species of virus is ingeniously assembled from just a few kinds of building block By ...

McMaster researchers found that bacteriophages treated under specific conditions form flower-like structures that are highly ...

The CDC study provides the largest window to date into how the bird virus first detected in March in dairy cows may be ...

In support of this hypothesis they publish electron micrographs of a number of “giant” spherical and polymorphic particles of influenza virus. They claim that these have constrictions and ...

Many chronic diseases may have an unrecognized viral etiology. Many human viruses remain undiscovered. Electron microscopy, virus culture and serology have been used to discover many viruses ...

In Nijmegen, the world’s first microscope has been installed that is capable of live imaging of biological processes in such ...

Researchers who work with bacteriophages -- viruses that eat bacteria -- had a pleasant and potentially very important surprise after treating samples to view under an electron microscope ...

In Nijmegen, Netherlands, researchers have installed the world's first microscope capable of live imaging of biological ...

The scanning electron microscope is a type of electron microscope ... The SEM can generate precise images of organisms as tiny as viruses and bacteriophages.

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 ...

Physicists have created the world’s fastest microscope, and it’s so quick that it can spot electrons in motion. The new device, a newer version of a transmission electron microscope ...