Plants are susceptible to a wide range of pathogens. For the common potato plant, one such threat is Pectobacterium atrosepticum, a bacterium that causes stems to blacken, tissues to decay, and often ...

used micro-imaging techniques – including X-ray crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy – to determine the structure of the DNA packaging motor in a virus called Bacteriophage phi29.

In 2012, researchers isolated a new virus that infects and kills this bacterium—a bacteriophage named ... Using cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), the team successfully captured the complete ...

As an undergraduate student, after taking my first microbiology course, I decided that I would commit to a biology major. I ...

New insights into a "friendly virus" that could pave the way for ... in the U.K. Using the University's own high-resolution electron microscope, the team were able to study the phage in atomic ...

Many labs have done experiments that have shown that phages, viruses ... microscope. How did you visualize individual Pseudomonas aeruginosa cells and what were the phages doing? We used electron ...

Electron microscopy uses a beam of electrons to illuminate ... Here, the authors characterize an RNA element in Powassan virus, highlighting structural adaptations enabling nuclease resistance ...

Scripps Research scientists used a cryo-electron microscope to create this image of a piece of the potentially deadly Lassa virus. (Hailee Perrett, Scripps Research) The “resolution revolution ...

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 ...