If Ebola virus was in his body ... Second, there’s “the remarkable genome stability of the virus over the years.” It didn’t change much, didn’t evolve much, at least until the human ...

The highly contagious Ebola virus has claimed more than 15,000 lives since it was first identified in central Africa in 1976.

But more recent outbreaks, including the 2013–2016 Ebola epidemic in West Africa, demonstrated that infectious Ebola virus (EBOV) is also found on the skin's surface of those who have succumbed ...

For instance, a study on the Ebola virus revealed the structure of its ... Nucleocapsid: The protein shell that encases the viral RNA genome. Matrix protein: A protein that plays a role in the ...

Researchers at the University of Iowa (UI) Health Care and colleagues at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute, and Boston University, used human skin explants to track the cellular route that ...

A recent study evaluates the potential of Nanosota-EB1 and Nanosota-EB2, nanobody inhibitors targeting the Ebola virus. Findings suggest that these nanobodies could improve survival rates and reduce ...

Over the past month there have been numerous news reports regarding the Ugandan outbreak of Ebola virus hemorrhagic fever. As of 8 November, the Ugandan ministry of health reported 286 cases ...

More than 40 years after it was identified, the Ebola virus continues to defy drugs, treatment plans—and experts’ best efforts to solve its mysteries. Ebola vaccine has to be kept cold.

"If we don't know what the wildlife host is, we can't know how, where or when that will be." The biggest filovirus outbreak, caused by Ebola virus, occurred in three West African countries from 2014 ...

Select a category above to classify viruses according to shared characteristics. Select any virus below to explore its structure and biology. The envelope contains viral proteins embedded in it.

The research team, led by Maury and Kelly Messingham, PhD, UI research professor of dermatology, developed a new approach to examine which cells within the skin are infected by Ebola virus.They ...