An artist shows feared viruses such as Ebola in a completely new light, by painting them in incredible detail. The Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections this year featured Professor Goodsell's HIV image as its logoThis is Professor Goodsell's idea of what Zika looks like, a virus spread by mosquitoes that causes symptoms of fever, rash, conjunctivitis, muscle and joint pain. Professor Goodsell said his artistic impressions are just that - an idea of what the pathogens and other molecules could realistically look like. Because new data about the structure of viruses emerges every day, Professor Goodsell's illustrations can quickly become 'out of date'. Professor Goodsell said his artist impressions are just that - an idea of what the pathogens and other molecules could look like.

Source: Daily Mail April 12, 2019 15:56 UTC