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.

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 ...

“No one has ever seen a bacteriophage—or any other virus—attach to another virus.” They took detailed electron microscopy images that show 80 percent of helper viruses in this sample had a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...