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Headline: High-Resolution Virus Pictures Help Researchers Develop Vaccines

Caption: PICTURE SHOWS: Atomic model gathered by X-ray crystallography of SARS-CoV-2’s receptor binding domain, the portion that attacks human cells. Covid-19 refers to the disease, the virus that causes the disease is SARS-CoV-2. ... STORY CAPTION: The U.S. Department of Defense has shown off high-resolution virus pictures, including SARS-CoV-2/Covid-19, they say help researchers develop vaccines. Dr. Gordon Joyce, of the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, said X-ray crystallography and electron microscopy are two ways that researchers can take such breathtaking images of viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, HIV-1, MERS-CoV, influenza, the human metapneumovirus, or the respiratory syncytial virus. Using a scanning electron microscope, he said, researchers take as many as a million images of a virus. Then, he said, maybe the best 100,000 of those are assembled to produce a composite image.

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