Penn study identifies how ebola virus avoids the immune system
PHILADELPHIA, PA - Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have likely found one reason why the Ebola virus is such a powerful, deadly, and effective virus. Using a cell culture model for Ebola virus infection, they have discovered that the virus disables a cellular protei...New Type of Ebola Virus Discovered
2007 outbreak in Uganda genetically distinct from other known species FRIDAY, Nov. 21 (HealthDay News) -- A new species of the deadly Ebola virus has been identified by American and Ugandan scientists. The new virus, called Bundibugyo ebolavirus , caused an outbreak in western Uga...Researchers Successfully Test Ebola Vaccines
Work in primates points to possible weapon against human infection with deadly disease MONDAY, March 31 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have successfully tested several Ebola vaccines in monkeys and are now working to create the first human vaccine for one of the world's deadliest dise...Penn scientists find a protein that inhibits Ebola from reaching out to infect neighboring cells
PHILADELPHIA - Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine have identified a protein, ISG15, that inhibits the Ebola virus from budding, the process by which viruses escape from cells and spread to infect neighboring cells. This study shows for the first time how ISG...New genetic lineage of Ebola virus discovered in great apes
This release is available in French . The Zaire species of Ebolavirus (ZEBOV) remains the most virulent of the various known species. It alone is responsible for 88% of human deaths from haemorrhagic fever recorded since Ebolas discovery in 1976. It was moreover the species involved in the ...Agencies must win trust of locals to contain Marburg and Ebola outbreaks
Outbreaks of filovirus haemorrhagic fevers (FHFs) such as those caused by the Ebola and Marburg viruses can only be controlled if agencies have the support and trust of local communities, according to two papers just published in the online edition of the Journal of Infectious Diseases as part of ...Research on Vaccine Against Ebola Virus
National Microbiology Laboratory of Canada is involved in developing a vaccine for the Ebola Virus. If this vaccine is developed, it is sure //to benefit the community of apes who are in the process of getting wiped out due to this deadly virus. According to Steven Jones who is leading this res...Antisense gene specific therapy for Ebola virus
Professor Sina Bavari and team from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases have found that antisense genetic sequence of the Ebola virus could help protection and treatment of humans // from wild strains of Ebola virus. This therapy is very important and still more has to b...Fruit Bats Act As Carriers of Ebola Virus
The Gabon's Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville has identified three types of fruit bats as the possible source of infection by the deadly Ebola virus // . The Epomops franqueti, Hypsignathus monstrosus, and Myonycteris torquata bats are eaten in Central Africa by local Cong...Experimental treatment for Ebola Virus Shows promising results in mice
Scientists at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, have said that an experimental treatment for the deadly Ebola virus has shown promising results in mice. In the study, researchers led by Dr. Manish Gupta took antibodies from the immune systems of mice that h...Aethlon Medical to Present at the 2009 RedChip Small-Cap Investor Conference on June 16, 2009
... untreatable with drug therapy, including several of world's deadliest bioterror and pandemic threats. These include: Dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF), ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF), Lassa hemorrhagic fever (LHF), H5N1 avian influenza (Bird Flu), the reconstructed 1918 influenza virus (r1918), West Nile vir...Vical Advances RapidResponse(TM) DNA Vaccine Platform Under $6 Million Grant from NIH
...ucial in addressing a naturally emerging potentially pandemic disease such as influenza or SARS, an accidental release of a dangerous pathogen such as ebola virus or Yersinia pestis (plague bacterium) from a biological containment facility, or an intentional release of a weaponized or bioterrorist-modified...AVI BioPharma Reports Positive Pre-Clinical Influenza Data
...es NEUGENE antisense compounds to combat disease by targeting single-stranded RNA viruses, including West Nile virus, hepatitis C virus, dengue virus, ebola virus and influenza A virus. AVI's NEUGENE-based ESPRIT technology will initially be applied to potential treatments for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. ...Scientists uncover Ebola cell-invasion strategy
GALVESTON, Texas University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers have discovered a key biochemical link in the process by which the Ebola Zaire virus infects cells a critical step to finding a way to treat the deadly disease produced by the virus. Ebola produces severe and often f...Scripps research scientists reveal key structure from ebola virus
Described in the July 10, 2008 issue of the journal Nature, the research reveals the shape of the Ebola virus spike protein, which is necessary for viral entry into human cells, bound to an immune system antibody acting to neutralize the virus. The structure provides a major step forward in unde...Pattern of human Ebola outbreaks linked to wildlife and climate
A visiting biologist at the University of California, San Diego and her colleagues in Africa and Britain have shown that there are close linkages between outbreaks of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in human and wildlife populations, and that climate may influence the spread of the disease. The decade-lo...Researchers discover key mechanism by which lethal viruses Ebola and Marburg cause disease
Researchers in the Greene Infectious Disease Laboratory at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Caribbean Primate Research Center have discovered a key mechanism by which the Filoviruses, Ebola and Marburg, cause disease. Th...Gorilla susceptibility to Ebola virus: the cost of sociality
By monitoring a large population of gorillas during an Ebola outbreak in the rain forest of the Republic of the Congo, researchers have found that in a few months the virus exhibited dramatic--but disproportionate--impacts on group-dwelling and solitary gorillas. The findings offer a unique glimpse...Gene-specific Ebola therapies protect non-human primates from lethal disease
Scientists have developed a successful strategy for interfering with Ebola virus infection that protected 75 percent of nonhuman primates exposed to the lethal disease. This is the first successful antiviral intervention against filoviruses like Ebola in nonhuman primates. The findings could serve ...Poaching, logging, and outbreaks of Ebola threaten central African gorillas and chimpanzees
Experts call for $30 million action plan to save mankind's closest relatives A combination of natural and man-made threats is killing gorillas and chimpanzees in Central Africa, and experts say $30 million is needed for special programs to save some of mankind's closest relatives from disappeari...Scientists discover how Ebola virus infects cells
Ebola virus reproduction in laboratory-grown cells is severely hampered by enzyme-inhibiting chemicals, and these chemicals deserve further study as possible treatments for Ebola virus infections in humans, report scientists supported in part by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Dise...Study Links Ebola Outbreaks To Animal Carcasses
All recent Ebola virus outbreaks in humans in forests between Gabon and the Republic of Congo were the result of handling infected wild animal carcasses, according to a study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and its regional partners. Appearing in the February edition of the journal Emerg...Combination vaccine protects monkeys from ebola and Marburg viruses
An experimental, combination vaccine against Ebola and Marburg viruses using virus-like particles (VLPs) provides complete protection against infection in monkeys. Researchers from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) report their results today (Feb. 26) at ...Viroblock SA Reports Positive Results of Preclinical Studies in Antiviral Nasal Spray
...ilies of enveloped viruses, such as human and avian influenzas, SARS, AIDS, ebola and smallpox viruses." "This is an exciting development period for V...ins of enveloped viruses, like human and avian influenzas, RSV, SARS, AIDS, ebola and smallpox viruses, and leverages a mechanism of action that limits the d...Aethlon Medical Announces Data Supported Strategy to Increase Hepatitis-C (HCV) Cure Rates
... untreatable with drug therapy, including several of world's deadliest bioterror and pandemic threats. These include: Dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF), ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF), Lassa hemorrhagic fever (LHF), H5N1 avian influenza (Bird Flu), the reconstructed 1918 influenza virus (r1918), West Nile vir...NexBio to Present at 2009 Biotech Showcase
...n(TM) is a highly-stable protein, currently at lead optimization stage, directed to the treatment of viral hemorrhagic fever caused by viruses such as ebola and Marburg, as well as the treatment of sepsis and septic shock. TOSAP(TM) is a novel, elegant, inexpensive & easily scalable microparticle formu...Specialists in infectious disease and global health convene at Philadelphia meeting
...ill elaborate on this national concern. NASA Technology Used to Prevent ebola and Malaria: Researchers have been monitoring the earths climate in an effort to track deadly outbreaks of malaria and ebola viruses using NASA satellite imagery. Climate changes can indicate where o...