Using a tiny, spherical glass lens sandwiched between two brass plates, the 17th-century Dutch microscopist Antonie van ...

Bacterial cell division, a process wherein a single cell divides to form two identical daughter cells, represents one of the ...

Current optical and electron microscopy imaging techniques are not suited for measuring the dynamic characteristics of living microorganisms at tiny scales due to complex sample preparation ...

Cell division in bacteria, the process that allows a single bacterial cell to divide into two, is regulated by the FtsZ ...

Deep under your feet, bacteria live busy lives. They swim, eat, and even hunt each other. Now, researchers at the University ...

The Andhra phage Image credit: Dokland lab Cryo-electron microscopy by University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers has exposed the structure of a bacterial virus with unprecedented detail. This is ...

Cryo-electron microscopy adds the element of super-cold temperatures, making it particularly useful for near-atomic structure resolution of larger proteins, membrane proteins or lipid-containing ...

PopA protein breaks structural rules, revealing new bacterial membrane behaviors, protein folding twists, and potential ...

With the inventions of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) in 1931 and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) shortly after in 1937, scientists gained an unprecedented ultrastructural view of the ...