HILLSBORO, Ore., May 4, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FEI Company (Nasdaq:FEIC), a leading scientific instrumentation company providing electron microscopy systems for nanoscale applications across many industries, today announced that Dr. Hong Zhou of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) has achieved atomic resolution of viruses in solution for the first time ever recorded using a Titan Krios™ transmission electron microscope (TEM). The paper was published as a cover-feature in Cell (www.cell.com), April 30, 2010, Zhang et al., 3.3 Angstrom Cryo-EM Structure of a Non-enveloped Virus Reveals a Priming Mechanism for Cell Entry, Cell (2010), doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2010.03.041.
