'This micrograph depicts a group of Clostridium tetani bacteria, responsible for causing tetanus in humans. Tetanus is an acute, often fatal, disease caused by an exotoxin produced by C. tetani.

Figure 1: Growth of D. vulgaris and C. acetobutylicum in co-culture on GY medium. Figure 2: Scanning electron microscopy of D. vulgaris and C. acetobutylicum in pure culture and co-culture. Figure ...

Cheese fungus, head lice, human sperm, a bee eye, a microplastic bobble: scientific photographer Steve Gschmeissner has imaged them all under the probing lens of a scanning electron microscope ...