東京理科大学 武村政春教授より
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Watch First-Of-Its-Kind Footage Of “Giant” Virus Infecting Cell
We know that viruses infect cells, but what does that process actually look like? Sure, diagrams can be helpful, but there’s nothing quite like seeing the real thing. Trouble is, doing so with the kind of microscopes you get in a classroom can be pretty difficult – but in some first-of-its-kind footage, researchers have successfully risen to the challenge.
The team, led by Professor Masaharu Takemura at the Tokyo University of Science, did so by making use of a particular type of virus: Mimivirus.
The vast majority of viruses are far too small to be seen with the standard light microscopes we use to learn about cells in school. Mimivirus, however, is a giant virus, with a total diameter of around 750 nanometers (or 0.00075 millimeters) – not big enough to see with the naked eye, but more than big enough for a light microscope.
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