Those spectacular photos of the #coronavirus you’ve seen? They probably came from Elizabeth Fischer’s microscope 🔬. It's not exactly #agarart, but the pictures are still worth 1,000 #microbes!
📝: @MarkianHawryluk, KHN/@TIME khn.org/news/scientist…
For Elizabeth Fischer, looking through an electron microscope was like many of the outdoor adventures she enjoys: “You’re looking at a world that most people don’t get to see.”
Photographing the new #coronavirus: “They’re very elegant, and they’re not malicious in and of themselves. They’re just doing what they do.”
Working at one of the 13 U.S. level IV labs, Elizabeth Fischer has access to samples of the deadliest pathogens in the world. “If there’s a disease, we have seen it.”
In 2014, Elizabeth Fischer received a sample of Ebola from a 2-year-old girl in Mali. The cell border and nucleus shape resemble the shape of Africa.
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