Six years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa had people fearing the possibility of a ...

The paper A. Bruchez et al., “MHC class II transactivator CIITA induces cell resistance to Ebola virus and SARS-like coronaviruses,” Science, 370:241–47, 2020. Earlier this year, immunologist Adam ...

A new study published in the journal Cell has revealed that scientists have discovered the interaction between an Ebola virus protein and a protein in human cells that may be an important key to ...

How Ebola enters the cell is shown. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any ...

The deadly Ebola virus is highly lethal to humans and nonhuman ... proteins that support activation of the immune system’s T cells. Monkeys provided ODV also appeared to have better anti ...

The Sudan virus, a close relative of Ebola, has a fatality rate of 50% but remains poorly understood in terms of how it infects cells. Currently, no approved treatments exist. To address this critical ...

Even when a person has recovered from Ebola and his or her blood is Ebola-free, the virus can linger in the body. It can remain in semen for months after the initial infection. Late last year, it was ...

These viruses have only the capsid surrounding their genetic material. A virus budding from a host cell membrane. This sequence of steps forms the virus’s envelope. A host is an organism that a ...