Six years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa had people fearing the possibility of a global outbreak. This was the first time many had ever heard of the virus, ...

A study published January 12 in the scientific journal Cell Host & Microbe shared information ... the most potential to act as hosts for the Ebola virus. Accomplishing this could not only aid ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘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.

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 ...

Ebola virus, being highly pathogenic for humans and ... our knowledge of the pathogenic mechanisms of EBOV and the host immune response is still limited. EBOV is known to cause the most severe ...

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 ...

Structure and assembly of viruses and viral proteins: The research in my lab is focused on the structures of viruses and viral proteins, and the macromolecular assembly processes that gives rise to ...