imaging stories

 
There's an old saying that sometimes, the person you know least is yourself. And this is certainly true when it comes to the proteins that build the human body, as scientists know the shape of less than two percent of them. Fear not, some researchers have finally found a non-destructive method for imaging single proteins (and did so, with ferritin).
 
By using nonoptical scanning probe microscopes, scientists are able to reveal the going-ons inside humans and animals with stunning clarity. Take the above set of donut-shaped blood cells — which have been treated with an antibiotic called phyllomelittin taken...