We have seen computer animations of coronovirus countless times since the onset of the epidemic. SARS-CoV-2 viruses are now seen for the first time!
Researchers have created the virus, which has been suspending the world for months, appearing in 3-D. These are not computer-ready models.
Austrian Company Nanographics, An offshoot of the University of Vienna Technology, has used new techniques and created 3-D images of real SARS-CoV-2 viruses from snap-frozen samples.
As ORF reports on its website, Ivan Viola from the Vienna University of Technology and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Saudi Arabia) recently said during an online lecture that researchers were asked to create data for 3-D images Researchers from Tsinghua University in Beijing were used. There, intact SARS-CoV-2 virus particles were extracted into the samples, scanned and digitized with cryoelectron microscopy (microscopy of shock-frozen samples).
These new methods, he says, could easily and quickly analyze future biological microscopy data.
According to the researchers, this is the first time a coronavirus has been photographed, not an animation has been madePhoto: Peter Mindeck / Nanographics / APA / DPA
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