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Coronavirus binds to ACE2 receptors, enters the cell, then releases its RNA. This was a mammoth operation: the virus model was built to scale and then animated. The ACE2 receptors (tree-like projections from the cell surface) are also to scale. The final 4K render took nineteen hours. You can expand the video to full-screen and run it at 4K from this page.