David Prangishvili, a virologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris and a colleague with Forterre in studying viruses that infect archaea, now thinks that viruses swam in the primordial soup prior to the emergence of
cellular life of any kind and only later became dependent on cells.
Live cell super resolution images
of internal
cellular structures can be captured with 120 nm resolution from all
kinds of samples using conventional fluorescent dyes.