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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Is this what some virus really looks like? It looks like Tron-era CGI.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The image is in fact CGI, but yes there are several viruses known as bacteriophages that look like this.

Trying to find this confirmed electromagnetic scan of this phage led me down a truly fascinating rabbit hole about antibacterial phage therapy, taxonomy, and more. Let your curiosity take the better of you on Wikipedia

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Such awesome pictures

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

At this scale we'd be seeing with electrons not photons, and everything would be gold coated. It's unlikely the head would be transparent. But other than that, not bad. False color gets applied to the B&W EM images, which helps.

Rabies is shaped like a bullet!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Artist's view of bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria and look like this. They attach to the bacterial wall with these fibers that look like spider legs, and then inject their DNA into the bacteria by contracting the sheath that attaches to the DNA-containing head. They kinda work like a syringe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

They almost seem like just a “living” reproductive system, as if that’s the entirety of their existence. Like real-life Daleks going “IN-SEM-IN-ATE!”