Although outbreaks of Ebola virus are rare, the disease is severe and often fatal, with few treatment options. Rather than ...

Ebola virus polymerase is already known as a hard-working protein - all Ebola viral proteins have to be. Ebola virus is a highly efficient pathogen because it gets by with just seven genes (humans ...

The group used cryo-electron tomography of cells transfected with viral proteins, and infected with model Ebola virus, to illuminate assembly intermediates. They obtained a 9 Å map of the ...

The stalk is an important part of the Ebola virus structure because it anchors Ebola's glycoprotein structure (which drives entry into a host cell) to Ebola's viral membrane.

New method Ebola virus uses to infect cells Researchers find that Ebola virus creates the very tunnels it uses to hide and move within the human body Date: December 18, 2023 Source: ...

The Ebola virus binded poorly to straw-colored fruit bats’ NPC1 receptor. “That really struck me,” said Anthony, who helped discover the sixth known ebolavirus strain, Bombali virus. “It became clear ...

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.

How people who recover may reveal the virus's weakness, if we study them. — -- A makeshift Ebola ward in Monrovia, Liberia, is a limbo of sorts – a place where people wait to either die or ...