Cryo-electron microscopy by University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers has exposed the structure of a bacterial virus with unprecedented ... epidermidis bacteriophage Andhra, Science Advances ...

The word "virus" is often associated with ... For these reasons, we decided to use cryo-electron microscopy to visualize the DT57C bacteriophage at high resolution in its entirety," Prof.

"Real Image of a T4 bacteriophage (a virus) via electron microscope," reads a graphic shared in a July 16 Facebook post. Said T4 bacteriophage – a type of virus that infects bacteria – can ...

To find out what was happening, researchers then examined the samples using a transmission electron microscope ... one has ever seen a bacteriophage – or any other virus – attach to another ...

Researchers identify the first known instance of one virus attaching to another with stunning clarity in transmission electron microscopy images ... No one has ever seen a bacteriophage – or any other ...

consistently attaching to a helper bacteriophage at its "neck" -- where the capsid joins the tail of the virus. In detailed electron microscopy images taken by Tagide deCarvalho, assistant ...

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 ...

and to tease out whether the two viruses are really co-infecting cells. The authors hope to collaborate with groups that use a different form of electron microscopy to understand what’s ...

Bacteriophages or “phages” is the terms used for viruses that infect bacteria ... a professor of microbiology at UAB and director of the UAB Cryo-Electron Microscopy Core. “With the present study, we ...