Escherichia coli bacteria imaged by high-speed inline force mapping and fluorescence microscopy. Simultaneous topography and elastic modulus maps show a stiffening of the division site. Light and ...

This artistic rendering depicts an atomic force microscopy tip scanning a structured network of bacterial cells with flagella in a honeycomb pattern. High-resolution surface characterization spans a ...

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a technique originally developed to assess the physical and mechanical properties of materials at extremely high resolutions, but the imaging speeds aren't fast enough ...