Truth continues to be just as strange as fiction,
and I hate it here.
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Mind officially blown…
Well, you probably know what a maximally concentrated mass of undifferentiated cells looks like:
I’ve worked with concentrated E. coli, and that looked much the same. Now, both fungal (e.g. yeast) and bacterial (e.g. E. coli) cells have a polysaccharide cell wall that helps them survive in adverse conditions, such as being packed into a dry block. Viruses don’t have that, so if you tried that with them, you could probably still have a mass that looked sort of the same as a block of yeast, but it would be just a jumble of their constituent parts (proteins, phospholipids, RNA) due to them breaking apart from the osmotic pressure. A maximal concentration of viable virions would require some extra moisture, making it more gooey, and it probably would no longer fit in a coke can.
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