Ebola virus, being highly pathogenic for humans and non-human primates and the subject of former weapons programmes, is now one of the most feared pathogens worldwide. In addition, the lack of pre ...

such as the Ebola virus and Zika virus, many need support in adapting this method for the COVID-19 virus, as well as in increasing their national testing capacities. A virus is a microscopic package ...

As such, research with the virus is highly regulated (and therefore relatively scarce). Viruses are infectious agents with either RNA or DNA as their genetic material. The nucleic acid used by ...

Expertise includes nucleic acid chemistry, nucleic acid biotechnology, DNA-based ... to prevent the virus from reproducing. In 1998, his team solved the structure of a receptor that is used by the ...

Researchers at the University of Iowa (UI) Health Care and colleagues at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute, and Boston University, used human skin explants to track the cellular route that ...