BIOENGINEER

Bacteria Use a Telomerase-Like Reverse Transcriptase to Fight Off Viruses

Researchers have discovered a bacterial antiviral defense system, DRT10, that synthesizes tandem-repeat DNA through a ...
BIOENGINEER

Cryo-EM Exposes Hidden Architecture of a Bacterial Antiviral Weapon Found in Pathogens

Cryo-electron microscopy has revealed the first structure of a TenpIN type III toxin-antitoxin complex common to several ...
Nature

Tiny beauty: how I make scientific art from behind the microscope

Cheese fungus, head lice, human sperm, a bee eye, a microplastic bobble: scientific photographer Steve Gschmeissner has imaged them all under the probing lens of a scanning electron microscope (SEM).
EurekAlert!

Scanning electron microscope image: Bacteria of the species Enterococcus faecalis (p (IMAGE)

Scanning electron microscope image: Bacteria of the species Enterococcus faecalis (purple) attach to hyphae of the fungus Candida albicans (turquoise). Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...
ScienceBlog

Most Kidney Stones May Actually Be Bacterial Colonies

This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. Scanning electron microscopy of kidney stone ...
EurekAlert!

Vibrio cholerae bacteria, photo taken with a Scanning Electron Microscope. (IMAGE)

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