Peering into a mysterious and tiny world for the first time, a team from Visual Science has given us a new and revealing look inside HIV. Lead by Ivan Konstantinov, the group has built the most detailed 3D model of the virus to date. To create the image, the team consulted over 100 leading science journals and then reconstructed viral proteins from x-ray images. With this information in hand, their team of 3D graphics designers were able to create an accurate and detailed image in about 3 months.
What do the different colors mean? Orange indicates parts encoded by the virus’s own genome, while gray indicates structures taken into the virus when it interacts with a human cell.
The full sized image of the virus is highly detailed and Konstantinov says it is suitable for poster size printing. At the moment the plan is to use the image in classroom situations and to popularize scientific research. Of course, it also has applications as a research tool for better understanding and combating this dangerous disease.
Source: visualscience.ru, newscientist.com
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I never saw such detailed view of any virus. This is amazing.
It looks like little people are break dancing on the surface.
but they already knew what was inside it if they generated that s**t brown town. you know what i want in a future world? christians running the universe and jesus smititng all the communist taiwanese. sarah palin is my baby i don’t know what you thinkin with ur abortion blood ahands you liberal nazi capitalist socialist american sophoclese tryptophanosaurus texas belchiong free speech hating gun controll’n psycho sudo-intelllekchewall. the kiosk in my temporal lobe is shaped like the make my bub bubs bounce lady.
where can you find an actual picture of the virus?
not a 3D COMPUTER generated image?
I an find images of a lot of other viruses
if HIV is so studied
why no real picture?
I compared the Herpes virus capsid to a sphere that I made from a new geometric matrix that I named ‘hexaflex’. In these wonderful images within this post I cannot fathom the connectivity within it.