Coronaviruses like the one that causes COVID-19 are studded with protein “spikes” that bind with receptors on the cells of their victims—the first step in infection. Now scientists have made the first detailed images of those spikes in their natural state, while still attached to the virus and without using chemical fixatives that might distort their shape.
Click here for original story, Scientists get the most realistic view yet of a coronavirus spike’s protein structure
Source: Phys.org