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

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 ...

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 ...

New research shows how small shifts in the molecular makeup of a virus can profoundly alter its fate. These shifts could turn ...

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 ...

‘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.

A new CDC-led study identifies deforestation as a leading indicator of Ebola virus spillover ... where the virus is believed to have first spilled over into a human host, excluding cases traced ...

Jamaican fruit bats support disseminated infection of Ebola but not Marburg virus. The differences in ... including ATF3, to modulate host gene transcription. Here, Pardons and Lambrechts et ...

Viruses that have negative-sense RNA genomes include influenza and Ebola. A protein found on the surface of influenza viruses that is needed for the virus to exit the host cell and infect more cells.