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Coronavirus Is Constantly Surprising When Being Heat Resistant, Self-healing, And Very Resilient
New laboratory tests show that Sars-CoV-2 still contains many surprises to the scientific community.
Specifically, a team in Hungary pressed the new corona virus with a micro-needle to measure how much force it could withstand before it exploded like a balloon.
But that did not happen.
Sars-CoV-2’s native virus — a complete viral particle — is only about 80 nanometers wide, and the tip of the needle is much smaller. Virion is a term used to refer to a single, stable, infectious viral element that is released from a cell and completely able to penetrate other cells of the same type.
The needle has run from the beginning of the virus to the end. Virion was crushed, but then immediately reverted back to her original form as the needle left. The researchers repeated this experiment 100 times and the virions remained mostly intact.
“It is surprisingly resilient,” said a team led by Dr. Miklos Kellermayer of Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary, in an article published on biorxiv.org on Thursday.
