The structure of viruses is discussed and illustrated by photographs taken by means of the electron microscope. Among the chapter headings are “Viruses and Tumours” and “Combating the ...
When all you’ve got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And when you’ve got a scanning electron microscope, everything must look like a sample that would be really, really interesting ...
To fight the virus that causes influenza, one of the avenues being explored by scientists is the development of drugs capable of destabilizing its genome, made up of RNA molecules. But the challenge ...