Getting a full picture of the step-by-step lifecycle of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus can help give us a better understanding of what happened during the pandemic. For Maastricht University we animated what happens between a healthy cell being infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and it eventually dying. 

While we were animating this project, a lot of the underlying science was not yet known. So we worked closely with scientists at Maastricht University and beyond, including structural biologists, molecular modellers, imaging scientists, and coronavirus experts to create a faithful reconstruction of what the scientific community believed happens inside the cell during a SARS-CoV-2 infection.