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<blockquote data-quote="Fritz the Cat" data-source="post: 432708" data-attributes="member: 605">The latest from the National Insitute of Health Oct. 24, 2024:<a href="https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events/cwd-prion-structure" target="_blank">https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events/cwd-prion-structure</a>&quot;Scientists at NIAID’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana, determined the CWD structure from the brain tissue from a naturally infected white-tailed deer. They isolated the prions and froze them in glass-like ice. Then, using electron microscopy techniques, they developed a 3-D electron density map that indicated the detailed shapes of the protein molecules within the prion structure. This involved taking nearly 80,000 video clips of the sample, magnified 105,000 times the original size, at various orientations. They marked prion filaments in the video clips and collected more than 500,000 overlapping sub-images. They isolated about 7,300 of the highest quality sub-images and then used supercomputers to generate a 3-D density map and a molecular model to fit the map.&quot;How about an actual picture instead of artistic drawings and 3-D ribbons. [ATTACH=full]71915[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fritz the Cat, post: 432708, member: 605"] The latest from the National Insitute of Health Oct. 24, 2024: [URL]https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events/cwd-prion-structure[/URL] "Scientists at NIAID’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana, determined the CWD structure from the brain tissue from a naturally infected white-tailed deer. [B]They isolated the prions and froze them in glass-like ice[/B]. Then, using electron microscopy techniques, they developed a 3-D electron density map that indicated the detailed shapes of the protein molecules within the prion structure. This involved taking nearly 80,000 video clips of the sample, magnified 105,000 times the original size, at various orientations. They marked prion filaments in the video clips and collected more than 500,000 overlapping sub-images. They isolated about 7,300 of the highest quality sub-images and then used [B]supercomputers to generate a 3-D density map and a molecular model to fit the map[/B]." How about an actual picture instead of artistic drawings and 3-D ribbons. [ATTACH type="full"]71915[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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