April 28, 2020 / By Christopher Carbone | Fox News
One trait that makes SARS-CoV-2, or the novel coronavirus, scary is the fact that it’s very good at taking over a host’s cellular machinery for its own purpose.
The high-resolution image below, captured by Elizabeth Fischer, the head of Rocky Mountain Laboratory’s (RML’s) Electron Microscopy Unit, was taken with a classic scanning electron microscope. Fischer has also captured visuals of the coronavirus that causes Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).
Those orange-brown folds and squiggles are part of a single cell’s surface that has been infected with SARS-CoV-2, or COVID-19.
