ZMapp, once touted as a miraculous "secret serum" against the deadly Ebola virus, has shown some success but fell short of the bar for effectiveness in a clinical trial, researchers said Wednesday.
Oct 13, 2016
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Cholesterol—that waxy substance incriminated in heart attack and stroke—is a precious commodity for cells. In fact, errors in a cell's ability to import these rod-like molecules can be fatal.
Sep 27, 2016
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In research published online today in Science, a team of scientists describe a new therapeutic strategy to target a hidden Achilles' heel shared by all known types of Ebola virus. Two antibodies developed with this strategy ...
Sep 8, 2016
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August 8, 2016 - Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) now have a high-resolution view of exactly how the experimental therapy ZMapp targets Ebola virus.
Aug 9, 2016
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(Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers working at Oxford University in the U.K. has found what appears to be an Achilles heel in the Ebola virus—a pocket able to hold destabilizing compounds. In their paper published ...
A model that predicts outbreaks of zoonotic diseases—those originating in livestock or wildlife such as Ebola and Zika—based on changes in climate, population growth and land use has been developed by a UCL-led team of ...
Jun 13, 2016
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Sexual transmission of the Ebola virus could have a major impact on the dynamics of the disease, potentially reigniting an outbreak that has been contained by public health interventions, according to research by University ...
Jun 7, 2016
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Ebola virus samples taken from patients in Liberia in June 2015 are strikingly similar in their genetic makeup to other Ebola virus sequences from Western Africa, according to research published online today in the journal ...
Apr 29, 2016
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(Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers from China, the U.S. and Sierra Leone has performed a postmortem on the Ebola outbreak that occurred during 2014/15 infecting approximately 8,700 people in Sierra Leone and killing ...
New research at the University of Kent has highlighted the potential for the emergence of a new form of Ebolavirus.
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