here is my interview with Jamie Andrews, project manager for the viral control studies project. We discuss the basic methodology of viral culture research and the reason why growth medium can produce viral like particles. These viral cultures underpin all of virology as a science.
His data shows that it is the starving of the cells that produce the images of viruses that we have been shown since we were little children.
When a cell is dying because it is starved of nutrition, it expels its contents as it dies.
The process of isolating a virus involves adding a sample from a "infected human" to a cell culture, seeing the cytopathic effects while the cell is also starved on a low nutrient medium, and then isolating the debris and sequencing it. If the debris comes from a starving cell, it puts serious doubts on the idea that the sample from an infected individual caused the cell lysis.
Audio of interview:
video:
Viral control studies posts: 
Full research protocol and images:
VERO Control Culture Transmission Electron Microscopy
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Vero Cell Culture Image Dataset
This dataset offers a collection of light microscope and transmission electron microscope (TEM) images of Vero E6 cell cultures , primarily aimed a...
