Seeing Cell Division Like Never Before

 

exoskeleton = a hard outer layer that covers, supports, and protects the body of an organism (e.g. invertebrate animal, bacterium)
E. coli = Escherichia coli = a bacteria that is commonly found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded organisms
cryo-electron tomography = cryoET = an imaging technique used to reconstruct high-resolution (~1–4 nm) three-dimensional volumes of samples, often (but not limited to) biological macromolecules and cells