Washington, D.C. -- May 26, 2015 -- A new study has demonstrated that a protein called Niemann-Pick C1 (NPC1) is critical for the Ebola virus to infect a host. The study, published in the May/June ...

Existing mouse models of lethal Ebola virus infection do not reproduce hallmark symptoms of Ebola hemorrhagic fever, neither delayed blood coagulation and disseminated intravascular coagulation nor ...

A blood test may help determine a patient's chance of surviving Ebola infection, according to a study published online January 19 in Genome Biology. HealthDay News — A blood test may help determine a ...

Ebola virus infection is associated with the release of a soluble glycoprotein (sGP) from infected cells. The sGP has been proposed to modulate Ebola virus pathogenesis in primates but little is known ...

An organic chemical compound shows effective antiviral activity against Ebola virus and several other viruses, according to a new study. An organic chemical compound shows effective antiviral activity ...

An NIH-led study is the first to describe the course of acute illness and recovery in a patient with Ebola virus disease. Researchers said their observations of a patient who received care during the ...

The current Ebola virus outbreak is the largest and most severe in the history of this virus. Ebola virus poses a threat to thousands of people in West Africa, with outbreaks reported in Guinea, ...

Figure 1: Induction of the cytopathic effects by Ebola virus glycoproteins and mapping of the molecular determinants of cytopathicity in vitro. Figure 3: Effects of Ebola virus GP expression in the ...

ATLANTA--Dr. Christopher Basler, a professor in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University, director of the university's Center for Microbial Pathogenesis and a Georgia Research ...