Influenza virions can take a variety of shapes, from the classic spherical or kidney bean morphology found in most ...

So even before her analysis, she knows the bucket is chock-full of naturally occurring predatory viruses called bacteriophages ... visible only under an electron microscope.

Modern super-resolution microscopes ... % of T4 viruses to stand upright on microscope slides, making measurements more consistent. The imaging revealed both the hollow structure of T4's capsid and ...

Typical structure discerning techniques such as cryo-electron microscopy can’t capture the varying configurations of genetic material in each virus. Back in 2010 ... and physical properties of a ...

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

The entire virus was reconstructed in three ... For these reasons, we decided to use cryo-electron microscopy to visualize the DT57C bacteriophage at high-resolution in its entirety,” Prof.

Two bacteriophage samples (P1 and Φ 6 ... A simple flowchart illustrating the main steps of sample preparation for electron microscopy imaging of viruses and VLPs obtained from phage lysate or viral ...

This remarkable discovery was made possible through the use of an electron microscope ... environmental samples containing bacteriophage satellite viruses that infect Streptomyces bacteria.

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 ...

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 ...

Discovered by students in ISU’s Bacteriophage Discovery and Genomics ... students get hands-on opportunities to use transmission electron microscopes, perform DNA isolation and sequencing ...