Tag Archive for PRO/AH/EDR> Ebola update (47): Liberia, US preparedness, funding, research
PRO/AH/EDR> Ebola update (47): Liberia, US preparedness, funding, research
Ebola -- Liberia30 Jun 2016: Achilles heel discovered in Ebola virus may lead to future treatment[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 in the journal Nature, the team describes the pocket that they discovered and 2 drugs that, when used to occupy the pocket, caused the virus to become unstable and, therefore, unable to reproduce." Read more [...]
