The most scientifically precise 3D model of the influenza virus ever created This awesome piece of work by the team of visualscience.ru provides an exceptionally detailed image of one of the world’s most common and deadly viruses: The A/H1N1 virus, better known as the common flu. The model reflects the current state of scientific knowledge about the virus based on the latest research in the fields of molecular biology, microscopy, and X-ray crystallography. We consider such 3D models a novel and effective method of presenting and promoting scientific knowledge of ubiquitous human viruses, said Visual Science founder and CEO Ivan Konstantinov. Because no single field of science has produced an image of the virus at an atomic or molecular level, the Visual Science team relied on data from dozens of scientific articles, expert analysis from leading research groups, and molecular modeling by the company’s own specialists. The last century saw three major influenza pandemics. The Spanish Flu (1918-1920) killed an estimated 50 million people — 2-5 percent of the world’s population — more than World War I or the Black Death. The Asian Flu and Hong Kong Flu, which struck in the 1950s and 1960s respectively, took a combined 2.5 million lives. The model contains all the important structural and functional proteins and can be viewed here (including explanations!)
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 18:02:31 +0000
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