Recent advances in viral metagenomics have enabled the rapid discovery of an
unprecedented catalogue of phages in numerous environments, from the human gut to the …

The process of intercellular communication seems to have been a highly conserved
evolutionary process. Higher eukaryotes use several means of intercellular communication …

The most abundant viruses on Earth are thought to be double-stranded DNA (dsDNA)
viruses that infect bacteria. However, tailed bacterial dsDNA viruses (Caudovirales), which …

Neuronal communication is typically mediated via synapses and gap junctions. New forms
of intercellular communication, including nanotubes (NTs) and extracellular vesicles (EVs) …

In recent years, thin membrane protrusions such as cytonemes and tunneling nanotubes
have emerged as a novel mechanism of intercellular communication. Protrusion-based …

The analysis of a single-particle imaging (SPI) experiment performed at the AMO beamline
at LCLS as part of the SPI initiative is presented here. A workflow for the three-dimensional …

Nearly all organisms are hosts to multiple viruses that collectively appear to be the most
abundant biological entities in the biosphere. With recent advances in metagenomics and …

Cryo electron tomography allows macromolecular complexes within vitrified, intact, thin cells
or sections thereof to be visualized, and structural analysis to be performed in situ by …

Isolated archaeal viruses comprise only a few percent of all known prokaryotic viruses. Thus,
the study of viruses infecting archaea is still in its early stages. Here we summarize the most …

Cell-to-cell communication is a critical requirement to coordinate behaviors of the cells in a
community and thereby achieve tissue homeostasis and conservation of the multicellular …