- So the way to see things really small is to magnify them.
And the simplest way to think about this is
you might remember using a magnifying glass.
But what we do is we basically use a complex,
a mixture of different lenses like that to enhance or zoom in
to really small particles that we are seeing.
And that's what basically a microscope is,
and different microscopes have different ways they work.
- You generally won't see a virus,
like the actual viral particle under a regular microscope,
but now they have different types of microscopes
that actually allow you to see really small particles,
to see what it looks like inside the cells.
We're not seeing any of this with our naked eye,
and even when you look at it in a regular microscope,
all you see is like, the little round cell,
and then that's about it.
So actually using this microscope,
we can see what those compartments look like,
and then we can see where the virus is going,
what it's doing within the cell, how it's being arranged.
So that's actually kinda beautiful.