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- nigms_nihProposed design for the 2018 World Cup soccer match ball? Nope. This image is actually an atomic-scale model of a virus (bacteriophage P22) that infects the Salmonella bacterium. Like a soccer ball, it combines hexagonal (six-sided) and pentagonal (five-sided) units.
Scientists used new computational methods to construct the model from more than 20,000 cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) images. For more details, check out our Biomedical Beat blog article titled “Researchers Score Goal with New Atomic-Scale Model of Salmonella-Infecting Virus.” Credit: C. Hryc in the Wah Chiu lab, Baylor College of Medicine
#science #biology #research #nigms#scienceisbeautiful #sciart #nih #nihfunded #biomedical #microscopy, #cryoem #imaging #electronmicroscopy #virus #virology #microbiology - spacerocketclub⭐️ _ ! ❣️ 🚀