Researchers have discovered a bacterial antiviral defense system, DRT10, that synthesizes tandem-repeat DNA through a ...
Cryo-electron microscopy has revealed the first structure of a TenpIN type III toxin-antitoxin complex common to several ...
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).
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 ...
Polypropylene makes great sutures and surgical meshes because it is strong and biocompatible. But it’s also susceptible to ...
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 ...
Viruses attack nearly every living organism on Earth. To do so, they rely on highly specialized proteins that recognize and bind to receptors on the surface of target cells, a molecular arms race that ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Prochlorococcus bacteria are so small that you’d have to line up around a thousand of them to match the thickness of a human thumbnail.
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