Comments on: Now playing: Viral plaque formation

By: gsgs

gsgs — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:57:58 +0000

I'm looking for a link to a list describing the different methods of virus-growth
(“passage”) and their abbreviations (E2,C1,M,P0,

By: gsgs

gsgs — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:57:58 +0000

I'm looking for a link to a list describing the different methods of virus-growth
(“passage”) and their abbreviations (E2,C1,M,P0,

By: profvrr

profvrr — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:50:11 +0000

As the cells are killed by viral infection, their refraction changes
and that appears as a shock wave in the microscope.

By: Manuel

Manuel — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:16:42 +0000

Beautiful on the one hand, frightening on the other. As long as this is what happens in humans who get infected with certain viruses I tend to the latter. It is time to put more effort into virology.

By: jim12311

jim12311 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:02:36 +0000

Fascinating; the outward spread looks like a shock wave and I'm trying to understand why that is so.

By: ifnpacman

ifnpacman — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:52:02 +0000

Have a look on this article and mainly on supplemental material, video S3A (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC216...) It shows how syncytia induced by measles virus develop and move (survive) as long as new fresh cells are added.
However, the rules that permit the formation of a syncytium are yet to be found (and it is not that easy) : is there a threshold of surface proteins in order to establish syncytia, in which direction...?

By: trinetsouderos

trinetsouderos — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:53:31 +0000

Incredible. It seems miraculous to me that we can actually WATCH this happening. Thanks for posting this, Vincent.

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