German scholars: So it may seem that the Coronervirus (Photo)

Coronervirus is visible even under the best microscopes. To give an enemy face, researchers use models. One of the most accurate he created is at Würzburg University, writes. n-tv.de.

Coronavirus, who has been affecting earth's population for over half a year, is invisible to the human eye. Its diameter corresponds to about a thousandth of man's hair. Researchers may even use electronic microscopes to create only vague images.

Coronervirus, therefore, is determined by using graphics and illustrations. The American agency's illustration of protection against the CDC epidemic presents a gray virus with scarlet thorns in the shell, but in reality it is different.

A team led by Andrea Thorn from the University of Würzburg investigated the SARS-CoV-2 virus structures and used them to compile a model of the pathogen closer to his true form.

And what's more surprising from my point of view is that the virus is not symmetric and round, but slightly adaptable”, Thorn said about n-tv.de for the result, which researchers published on a special Web site.

Thorn initially assumed that SARS-CoV-2 was round, as is the case with many other viruses, but it turned out that its surface was irregular and that it constantly changes “as a soap bubble”.

Members of the research team jokingly called it a “patate”. They also found that the size of the virus can change, so individual pathogens are sometimes smaller, sometimes bigger.