30-Mar-2011
They are entirely too small to be seen even with the most powerful microscope. But now an international research team has managed to capture an image of an intact virus and a membrane structure from a photosynthetic bacterium with the aid of extremely intensive and ultra-short x-ray pulses from the world's first free electron laser. This new advance in structural biology is being published in two articles in the journal Nature.
G.I.T. Laboratory Journal
