Images Advance Understanding of SARS-CoV-2 Gut Infection Activity

摘要

Some of the largest and highest resolution images recorded of the SARS-CoV-2 virus,the cause of the Covid-19 pandemic,have been published online by scientists at the University of Dundee and the EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute(EMBL-EBI).Ultra-powerful EM images collected by a consortium of researchers from the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht,Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam and Maastricht University in the Netherlands,show the formation of SARS-CoV-2 particles in a tissue model of the human gut,a potentially significant breakthrough in understanding how the disease can infect the intestine.Each of the images is greater than 30-50 GBytes which is 500 to 1000 times larger than an image recorded on an iPhone and the scientists who collected them were only able to include very small parts of the images in their paper [1].