Scientists in Basel revealed that energy-producing proteins in mitochondria form large supercomplexes, boosting ATP ...

Mitochondria are the powerhouses in our cells, producing the energy for all vital processes. Using cryo-electron tomography, ...

A combination of imaging techniques reveals how herpes simplex virus type 1 assembles within infected cells, highlighting the roles of essential viral proteins in viral assembly and exit.

A new "self-driving" microscope developed by UT Southwestern ... were readily attacked and cleared by immune cells called macrophages. However, skin cancer cells were not cleared from the organism ...

Her work bridges both the animal and human worlds, like the zoonotic pathogens she holds under the microscope. She investigates organisms ... In the immune system’s military operation, cells known as ...

After pathogen clearance, macrophages shift phenotype to promote wound repair ... Cells were fixed with 4% paraformaldehyde (Electron Microscopy Sciences; cat# 15710S), permeabilized with 0.25% Triton ...

Macrophages represent one of the most prevalent cells in the colorectal cancer microenvironment and play a pivotal role in maintaining intestinal health and the development of colitis-associated colon ...

Department of Physiology, State Key Laboratory of Common Mechanism Research for Major Diseases, Haihe Laboratory of Cell Ecosystem, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences and School of Basic Medicine, ...

Physicists at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have generated the highest-current, highest-peak-power electron beams, achieving 100 kiloamps for one quadrillionth of a second.

Today we are machining some metal inside the scanning electron microscope! By creating a custom fixture, we can manually advance a carbide cutter and cut metal inside the vacuum chamber of my SEM.

They used the latest cryo-electron microscopes to image virus particles, and then used computational image analysis to derive very detailed 3D models of the viral proteins. Unexpectedly ...