Genetic mutations called "escape variants" in the deadly Ebola virus appear to block the ability of antibody-based treatments to ward off infection, according to a team of U.S. Army scientists and ...

Sequencing viral genomes during an outbreak can facilitate response and containment efforts. In this study, we describe a reverse transcription long-range polymerase chain reaction for efficient ...

Viruses like influenza A and Ebola invade human cells in a number of steps. Research teams investigated the final stages of viral penetration using electron tomography and computer simulations.

A new, faster and safer way of diagnosing the Ebola virus has been developed by an academic from Northumbria University, Newcastle. Research led and carried out by Dr Sterghios Moschos at Northumbria ...

Trump aid cuts could push next Ebola outbreak to spiral out of control, former US official warns - A countdown is on to ...

Ten years after Emory University treated the first patients with the Ebola virus in the U.S., the team behind that critical care is opening a new lab to further study how to prevent the spread of ...

The Ebola virus devastated west Africa in 2014, claiming over 11,000 lives in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. It was the largest Ebola outbreak since the virus had first been discovered in the ...

Cornell researchers have found that a new DNA sequencing technology can be used to study how transposons move within and bind ...