Ebola: Scientists reveal a new way it replicates
Scientists in Canada and the U.S. have discovered a new way in which Ebola—an often deadly virus affecting people mostly in sub-Saharan Africa—reproduces in the body.
Scientists in Canada and the U.S. have discovered a new way in which Ebola—an often deadly virus affecting people mostly in sub-Saharan Africa—reproduces in the body.
Molecular & Computational biology
Mar 17, 2024
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Since its 1976 emergence in Africa, the Ebola virus has proven an especially lethal contagion, killing roughly 50% of the people who contract it. The 2019 FDA approval of a vaccine, combined with the subsequent development ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 8, 2024
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In a recent study published in Nature Communications, researchers from Karolinska Institutet and the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology have identified a new molecule in cells that is necessary for Ebola and Marburg viruses ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 1, 2023
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A team of researchers at the University of Waterloo and Dalhousie University have developed a method for forecasting the short-term progression of an epidemic using extremely limited amounts of data.
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 31, 2023
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If infected with the Ebola virus, less than 20% of endangered mountain gorillas living in Africa's Virunga Massif region would be expected to survive more than 100 days past the first confirmed case. That is according to ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 12, 2023
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In their evolutionary battle for survival, viruses have developed strategies to spark and perpetuate infection. Once inside a host cell, the Ebola virus, for example, hijacks molecular pathways to replicate itself and eventually ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 3, 2023
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Richer countries must increase climate support for African nations as accelerating impacts of global warming sicken and kill hundreds of thousands every year across the continent, scores of scientific health journals warned ...
Environment
Oct 19, 2022
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"I'm a professional pin-in-a-haystack seeker," geneticist Thijn Brummelkamp responds when asked why he excels at tracking down proteins and genes that other people did not find, despite the fact that some have managed to ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 29, 2022
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Ebola virus causes serious infections in humans and in fatal cases, damage and dysfunction of the liver is often present, suggesting that the liver plays a decisive role in disease outcome. Although the liver can become directly ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 8, 2022
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Researchers from CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, have detected antibodies to a filovirus in Australian bats for the first time.
Ecology
Aug 17, 2022
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