Researchers who work with bacteriophages -- viruses that eat bacteria -- had a pleasant and potentially very important surprise after treating samples to view under an electron microscope: they had ...

The researchers described the full structure of Bas63 in elaborate detail, including unique hexamer decoration proteins, multiple types of tail fibers and an interesting trident structure within the ...

Structure of an entire DT57C bacteriophage. The entire virus was reconstructed in three dimensions at near-atomic resolution and visualized in this animation. The word “virus” is often associated with ...