Rendition of SARS-CoV-2 (IMAGE)

NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Rendition of SARS-CoV-2

Caption

Rendition of SARS-CoV-2, displaying 3D prints of virus particles (colorized blue and pink; the blue virus surface is covered with pink spike proteins that enable the virus to enter and infect human cells), and a background image that is a colorized scanning electron micrograph of a cell (red) infected with the Omicron strain of the virus (blue). Note: not to scale.

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NIAID

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