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Safely Studying Dangerous Infections Just Got a Lot Easier

Seven illustrations of cells infected with SARS-CoV-2, created from soft X-ray tomography

Crystallography for the Misfit Crystals

New Technique Gets the Drop On Enzyme Reactions

A GIF showing the new process

Cell ‘Fingerprinting’ Could Yield Long-Awaited Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnostic

Illustration of a person analyzing brain cells in a Lab. The machine projects an image of another person's brain on the screen.

Enzyme Action Movie Shows How Nature Makes Penicillins

ABPDU Celebrates a Decade of Bio-Innovation

Photograph depicting a panoramic view of laboratory space inside the ABPDU facility, located in Emeryville, CA.

Deconstructing the Infectious Machinery of the SARS-CoV-2 Virus

This color-enhanced image, taken by scanning electron microscopy, shows huge quantities of SARS-CoV-2 particles (purple) that have burst out of kidney cells (green), which the virus hijacked for replication. The bulging, spherical cells in the upper-right and bottom-left corners are distorted and about to burst from the viral particles inside, and are beginning to self-destruct. (Credit: NIAID Integrated Research Facility)

The Incredible Bacterial ‘Homing Missiles’ That Scientists Want to Harness

An artistic rendering of tailocins attached to a target bacteria

Do You Know the Way to Berkelium, Californium?

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Scientist Q&A: The Molecular Imaging Behind COVID-19 Breakthroughs

Solving a Genetic Mystery at the Heart of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Microscopy image of the SARS-CoV-2 virus

Location, Location, Location: Regional Tau Deposits in Healthy Elders Predict Alzheimer Disease