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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."

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  1. do they have breasts? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    that's the only anatomy I'm interested in!

  2. Good news! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm glad to see the editors are avoiding linking directly to Roland Piquepaille's page. I'm also glad they're still accepting his submissions, as a good number of them are very interesting.

  3. Mailing Daddypants by metlin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I've been having trouble mailing daddypants@slashdot.org - and this is not the first time where I've had this problem.

    Have any other subscribers had similar problems? I just get a mailer daemon error from pudge@andover.net.

    Weird.

  4. Another Piquepaille story... by Mr.+Underbridge · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Pisspail! Where ya been man!

  5. what Corporate USA wont do CHINA WILL by cheekyboy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In the future, china will trump all of corp america, they arent as savvy in the economic world
    but they keep things simple, if theres a market for something, they can/will produce it, because
    if its for the good of the state they will, kind of like a communist idealogy using captialist methods.

    --
    Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
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  7. Re:bummer ....... by Tablizer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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

    Right when I read that, a slashdot ad for the "Power Squid" rendered right next to your comment:

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