Researchers from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI), and the International Livestock ...

Six years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Ebola outbreak in West Africa had people fearing the possibility of a global outbreak. This was the first time many had ever heard of the virus, ...

In the Ebola experiments, Lacy-Hulbert, Bruchez, and their colleagues had been using a genetic screen called transposon-mediated gene activation to search for natural antiviral mechanisms within ...

The Ebola and Marburg viruses, both members of the filovirus family, wreak havoc on host cells with just seven open reading frames (ORFs) encoded by a 19-kilobase RNA genome. But a comprehensive ...

Healthy pigs at ILRI's Clinical Research Facility. Image courtesy ILRI. An electron micrograph of an African swine fever virus particle ...

As New York City's first Ebola patient, Craig Spencer became the ... community in 1993 for her discovery that altering a single gene in roundworms could double their life span.