Spike proteins — the now-familiar elements that allow such viruses to infect ... of Scripps’ seven cryo-electron microscopes. If you were able to stack up the images he takes during a six ...

The common cold sore virus, which is often caught in childhood, usually stays in the body for life – quietly dormant in the ...

The RNP complex is the influenza virus’s essential package, the virus’s blueprints and a copy machine all rolled in one. The ...

Using state-of-the-art equipment that captures a complete picture of a virus "at the atomic level," Hormel Institute faculty ...

The emergence of cryo-electron microscopy (cryo ... channel activation, virus fusion and membrane pore formation. Cryo-EM sample preparation and image recording Sample requirements are simple ...

Brazil, the world’s largest chicken exporter, has confirmed its first outbreak of bird flu on a poultry farm, triggering a ...

SEM stands for scanning electron microscope. The SEM is a microscope that uses electrons instead of light to form an image. Since their development in the early 1950's, scanning electron microscopes ...

Modifying ultracold liquid helium electron microscopy by replacing copper specimen holders with gold and reducing hole size minimizes ice expansion and movement, significantly enhancing image ...

Scripps Research scientists used a cryo-electron microscope to create this image of a piece of the potentially deadly Lassa virus. (Hailee Perrett, Scripps Research) The “resolution revolution ...