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Quitte frankly, the article doesn't amount to much - the video is worth clicking the link! This is what all the Folding at Home is all about!
https://www.rt.com/news/488669-coronavirus-structure-detail-video/
You can now look at the SARS-CoV-2 virus up close – at the atomic level, in fact – thanks to a scientifically accurate 3D model created by a biomedical visualization studio with the help of leading virologists.
The video by Visual Science, which is just over a minute long, lends fresh insight into the intricate structure of the deadly virus by painstakingly detailing how it functions – and how our bodies fight it. At the start of the video, we are told that the novel coronavirus at the center of the ongoing pandemic is a mere 1/1,000th the width of a human hair. Thanks to cutting-edge modelling tech, though, we are able to see the molecular structure of the virus up close.
Link to YouTube video.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2020, @03:53AM
well yeah (!) for anything multimedia!
anyways the video triggered something and i was thinking "the virus kills the host cell".
well this is a, at least, a biased view. one could also say the virus TRANSFORMS a infected host cell.
one assumes that the virus isn't equiped with a fusion drive (infinite energy source) and replicator technology (star trek) and can make matter from energy.
so even tho not all material present in a host cell is transformed into new viruses i still consider that it's more a transformation then a killing of the host cell?
if we consider a host cell as an entity defined by things like functions and stuff then this entity dies, however if we consider the parts then the host cell isn't really dead but got convinced to turn into "fluff" that has the ability to convince other cells to turn into fluff too.
i suppose some would then argue that catching a rabbit, grilling it and then eating it isn't killing the rabbit but INCORPORATING (not in the business sense) it ...
anyways, "killing" is maybe misplaced in the cellular realm? just a note for the kids growing up ... one brain hurdle less to be inflicted with, maybe?