What is even more worrying is that there are easier ways of recreating microbes. You can simply add key genes to a close relative. The key in all cases is knowing the genetic sequence. That raises ...

The World Health Organization warns that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is on track to become the deadliest on record. Why is controlling the virus a major challenge? Are ...

Following infection, the Ebola virus can survive unnoticed in the human body for months or even years, hiding in areas with little immune surveillance like the central nervous system. The danger is ...

The first genomes from Congo's Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak point to a recent animal spillover, but are too few to date when the jump happened.

Following infection, Ebola virus can survive unnoticed in the human body for months or even years, hiding in areas with little immune surveillance like the central nervous system. In doing so, it ...