He said: "This is a world record in terms of how small an optical microscope can go by direct imaging under a light source ... and even then you cannot see inside a cell -- only the outside.

Gram staining is one way scientists can identify bacteria. Gram-positive bacteria, such as Staphylococcus, appear blue or purple under a microscope when scientists apply a stain. Conversely, Gram ...

Swarming is one of the principal forms of bacterial motility facilitated by flagella and surfactants. It plays a distinctive ...

Researchers found bacterial cells so large they are easily visible ... When he put the dental plaque under a primitive microscope, he was astonished to see single-celled organisms swimming about.

The monitoring is performed with a basic optical microscope, a video camera or a mobile phone. The ONMD technique monitors the microscopic oscillations of bacterial cells (nanomotion) that ...

The optical microscope relies on light and consists ... Optical microscopes are used to examine living organisms (such as bacteria, yeasts, and single-celled organisms) or fixed samples (like ...

Bacteriophages, or phages, viruses that selectively target and infect bacteria ... individual viral particles to cells by directly visualizing them under the microscope," said Jyot Antani ...