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The mimivirus is the largest virus known to scientists, about half of a micrometre (0.0005 millimeter) in diameter. It is more than 10 times larger than the virus that causes the common cold and ...

10/22/2018 | Determining the structure of a virus is an important step in understanding and treating viral disease. For decades, structural biologists have been using cryo-electron microscopy to ...

HOUSTON – (Aug. 18, 2014) – Rice University scientists have won a race to find the crystal structure of the first virus known to infect the most abundant animal on Earth. The Rice labs of ...

1 A cluster of SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) virions -- entire virus particles -- viewed through an electron microscope. The new coronavirus was first reported in ...

Using cryo-electron tomography, they have identified a previously unknown molecular pore in the DMV (Science 2020, DOI: 10.1126/science.abd3629). This pore could be a target for therapies that ...

Elizabeth Fischer and her team visualize the world’s deadliest plagues from Ebola to HIV, salmonella to SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.

But new images of the virus show us what it looks like up close. ... This image from a scanning electron microscope shows, in orange, the coronavirus that causes the disease COVID-19.

Despite most of campus being shut down, Duke Engineers are keeping an advanced electron microscope running to help find the coronavirus's Achilles heel ...

A transmission electron microscope captured this image of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which has a distinctive crown-like appearance. NIAID-RML The virus sample used in the images was isolated from ...