The Ebola virus (EBOV) is notorious for causing severe hemorrhagic fever in humans, and its matrix protein, VP40, plays a crucial role in the virus's ability to assemble and bud from host cells.

"If we don't know what the wildlife host is, we can't know how, where or when that will be." Scientists make major ...

The Sudan virus, a close relative of Ebola, has a fatality rate of 50% but remains poorly understood in terms of how it ...

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.

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 ...

Is the Sudan virus deadlier than Ebola? A key discovery explains how it clings to human cells. The Sudan virus, a close relative of Ebola, has a 50% fatality rate, but its mechanisms of cell ...

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 ...

Has developed a new compound, Cosalane, capable of intercepting the HIV virus before it attaches to a host cell ... to enter and infect human cells. Studies the envelope proteins of viruses, including ...

The virus was identified in a lab in Marburg, Germany. Since then, outbreaks have occurred in a handful of countries in Africa, less frequently than Ebola. Marburg’s natural host is a fruit bat ...

The COMBINE approach: Identification, characterization & inhibition of the virus-cell binding step Any viral infection begins with the attachment of the virus to host cells and subsequent ...