Anatomy of a Virus

Roland Piquepaille writes "No, I'm not talking about a computer virus here, but about a real one, the Epsilon 15, which attacks the bacterium Salmonella. By writing a few lines of computer code, biologists from Purdue University have found a way to control a high-resolution microscope. This allowed them to look inside a virus. While previous teams were able to visualize the highly symmetric outer shell of other viruses, these researchers were able to see the whole structure of Epsilon 15, including its tail, its genome and even its core. This better knowledge of viruses which attack bacteria could lead to great advances in medicine, especially when antibiotics become inefficient because of bacteria resisting them."

Comments

control those microscopes!

[m-laboratories]

Fascinating. Even more surprising is that researchers from Purdue are just now learning how to control a microscope...

bummer .......

[Brigadier]

So they don't look like teh little rocketship diagram we have grown used to all these years.

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/alllife/virus.gif

Hi !

[Anonymous Coward]

LOL , not this is not a virus !

is it just me?

[Connie_Lingus]

Or does the image on the right of this look like a new boss monster for Half/Live III???

Re:It has NOT been done before, you insensitive cl

[darkmeridian]

(Score:5, Informative) by bananaendian (928499)

... (and don't give me any of that "you must be new here" crap...)

You are new here.

Re:I wonder...

[spacebird]

Around the same time people stop assuming the worst about other forum posters, I'd guess.