His lab has looked at key pieces of this protein, including the L domain, a short stretch of amino acids that hijacks host proteins the Ebola virus uses to exit the cell. By looking at host ...

To enter a human cell, an ebolavirus glycoprotein has ... This work can guide future surveillance efforts to identify the host reservoir of Ebola virus and other related viruses.

If Ebola virus was in ... That means it needs a host—at least one kind of animal, or plant, or fungus, or microbe, whose body serves as its primary environment and whose cell machinery it ...

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 ...

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 ...

This was the first time many had ever heard of the virus, but since it was first identified in 1976, there have actually been more than 20 serious Ebola incidents. Thankfully, none of them had the ...

Announcing a new article publication for Zoonoses journal. Hematologic disorders occur frequently in patients with Ebola ...

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.

‘Filming’ viruses at atomic resolution Filoviruses, such as the Ebola virus and Marburg ... by focusing on the entry of a virus into a host cell, which is the first stage of virus infection.