The life cycle of SARS-CoV-2

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What happens if a SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus enters your lung? This molecular animation visualises how the virus particle can take over the host cell and turns it into a virus factory. Eventually, the host cell produces so many viral particles that it dies and releases numerous new virus particles.

This is a dummy video

Created by 

Raimond Ravelli and Kèvin Knoops with Phospho Biomedical Animation

With thanks to

Ine Vandewauw, Tom Cane, Elspeth Garman, Maria Wolleswinkel, Guy Kelly, Montse Barcena, Sam Peppard, Lukas Kapitein, Hugo Damstra, Wilco Nijenhuis, Esteban Dodero Rojas, Jose Onuchic, Paul Whitford

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