A new technique using electron tomography and subtomogram averaging at Diamond's electron Bio-Imaging Centre (eBIC), has solved the structure of the HIV capsid alone and in complex with host factors.
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Researchers gave the vaccine to human cells in a lab and imaged the result
The jab forces the injected person s own cells to make replicas of real virus spike
The immune system remembers the shape of the spike and how to defeat it so that if a person gets infected in the future then they can rapidly fight the virus