It is the first study to show an atomic structure of a virus solely through cryo-electron microscopy ... in their native environment, and the microscope operates in a vacuum, because electrons ...

stand with the cryo-electron microscope used to determine the structure of the Zika virus. (Purdue University photo/Mark Simons) Download Photo The Zika virus, a mosquito-borne disease, has recently ...

A research team used the emerging technique of single-particle electron cryomicroscopy ... Details of the structure of a virus provide valuable information for development of disease treatments ...

There are a lot of situations where a research group may turn to an electron microscope to get information about whatever system they might be studying. Assessing the structure of a virus or ...

All electron microscope images come out in greyscale ... enabling scientists to piece together the virus's atomic structure. That will then help to explain its tactics — its strategy for ...

Knowledge of protein structure in Andhra and understanding of how those structures allow the virus to infect a bacterium will ... providing much higher resolution than a light microscope.

Scripps Research scientists used a cryo-electron microscope to create this image of a piece of the potentially deadly Lassa virus ... exposing their structure and purpose. Ward offered a simple ...

At the time, the best pictures anyone had managed to take were low-resolution images, in which the virus looked like ... the smidgen of ice into a cryo-electron microscope. The device fired ...

As the blood leaked into the icy water so too did a deadly unknown virus ... under an electron microscope they saw something they didn't expect. "We saw a gigantic worm like structure - gigantic ...