Biomechanics of how the Ebola virus attaches to its host cell Date: March 26, 2019 Source: Lehigh University Summary: Engineers and microbiologists have developed a simple model for virus-host ...

Scientists recently published findings indicating that Ebola virus creates and uses intercellular tunnels to move from cell to cell and evade treatments. Understanding how viruses travel once ...

Despite its isolation three decades ago, Ebola virus continues to cause periodic outbreaks of severe hemorrhagic fever in humans, and the closely related Marburg virus is responsible for a recent ...

How does the Ebola virus prevent immune cells from doing their job - protecting the body from infection - if it doesn’t actually invade them? In a new study from the University of Texas Medical Branch ...

Ebola virus disease (EVD), first identified in 1976, is a severe illness with a fatality rate around 50%, with rates ranging from 25-90% for specific outbreaks. Most recently the ninth outbreak of ...

"This is the first time such a platform (liver cells produced from stem cells) has been used to study Ebola virus infection. Our results provide first insights into the host response of primary ...

New research in the journal Nature Communications gives scientists an important window into how Ebola virus replicates inside host cells. The study, led by scientists at La Jolla Institute for ...

In a new Cell study, scientists in LJI’s Center for Vaccine Innovation share the first detailed, complete images of a viral structure called the Ebola virus nucleocapsid. This breakthrough may ...

Once inside a host cell, the Ebola virus, for example, hijacks molecular pathways to replicate itself and eventually make its way back out of the cell into the bloodstream, where it can spread further ...

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