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First detailed images of coronavirus show how deadly bug multiplies in the gut

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Scientists have shared the first detailed images of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, showing the deadly bug multiplying in the gut. The images were collected by an international team of researchers, led by the University of Dundee.

They were taken by an ultra-powerful electron microscope, and show virus particles in a tissue model of the human gut. To take the images, the researchers infected human intestine cells with the virus in a laboratory, before monitoring the cells’ response.

The first set of images show the virus assembling in the human gut, while the second set shows the virus leaving the human intestinal cells.

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