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Headline: High-Resolution Virus Pictures Help Researchers Develop Vaccines

Caption: PICTURE SHOWS: Atomic model gathered by X-ray crystallography of the Zika virus (center, pink) bound to two human antibodies (left and right, purple), the body’s method of flagging invasive agents in the body for elimination. ... 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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