Our rating: False. Based on our research, we rate FALSE the claim an image shows a microscopic view of a bacteriophage. The image was an illustration created by XVIVO Scientific Animation and was ...

Viruses are microscopic organisms that are available abundantly on the earth. They consist of genetic material, RNA or DNA, surrounded by a coat of protein, lipid (fat), or glycoprotein. As ...

What it is: A microscopic virus-packed particle that's also expelled from an infected person's mouth when breathing, speaking, coughing or sneezing. Unlike a droplet, smaller aerosol particles can ...

The drama, depicted in a microscopic video of SARS-CoV-2 infecting bat brain cells, provides a window into how the pathogen turns cells into virus-making factories before causing the host cell to die.