The company Nanographics, a branch of the Technical University of Vienna, has used the latest 3D technology to obtain an image of the SARS-CoV-2 virus from frozen samples. Intact virus particles were extracted at Tsinghua University in Beijing, scanned with cryoelectron microscopy and digitized. This is how in the not too distant future we will look through the microscope.
The images we had so far of the coronavirus were computer animations based on understanding the virus. Now virologists can see him face to face, thanks to a real photograph.The company Nanographics, a branch of the Technical University of Vienna, has used the latest 3D technology to obtain an image of the SARS-CoV-2 virus from frozen samples.
UNTIL NOW COMPUTER ANIMATIONS WERE USED, THE NANOGRAPHICS COMPANY HAS SHOWN ITS TRUE APPEARANCE
We have been suffering from it for a year but we had not yet seen its true face. A study by the company Nanographics, a branch of the Technical University of Vienna, has shared the first 3-D image of the coronavirus from frozen samples.Until now, all the images that had been distributed of the pathogen were computer animations, based on technical estimates.For the elaboration of the first official pose, the researchers have used real particles extracted at Tsinghua University in Peking, China, treated using cryoelectronic microscope techniques and their subsequent digitization.
That this model can help researchers to understand how the virus works. Our contribution to this project has been to provide a rendering (a digital image treatment process) in real time to visualize the model in the most informative way.Among the known materials, they have released a video comparing the captures seen so far and the new scientific discovery in the form of images.
