For the very first time researchers have photographed a virus reproducing and destroying cells given the tiny size of these micro-organisms between 20 and 200 nanometres (a nanometre is a billionth of a metre). ‘The image shows vaccinia virus the live-virus vaccine used to eradicate smallpox spreading from a single infected cell through an entire layer of monkey kidney cells’ said Timothy Newsome from the University of Sydney. Newsome and Dean Procter doctoral student from his lab at the university's School of Molecular Bioscience collaborated with colleagues from the Australian National University to create the image. The technique also helps
