The findings of a new study suggest that the virus behind Ebola – a rare but severe and often fatal illness – may be spread by skin contact, by providing a comprehensive cellular map of its journey to ...

The study identifies new cell types within the skin that are targeted by EBOV during infection and ... Paving the Way for Antivirals Against Ebola Virus and Its Deadly Relatives Sep. 17 ...

To enter a human cell, an ebolavirus glycoprotein has to attach—or bind ... helped discover the cholesterol-trafficking ...

"This study explores the role of the skin as a potential route of Ebola virus infection and identifies, for the first time, several cell types in the skin that are permissive to infection," says ...

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 ...

The research team, led by Maury and Kelly Messingham, PhD, UI research professor of dermatology, developed a new approach to examine which cells within the skin are infected by Ebola virus.They ...

The Ebola virus devastated west Africa in 2014, claiming over 11,000 lives in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. It was the largest Ebola outbreak since the virus had first been discovered in the ...

LONDON, GREATER LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, January 25, 2025 /EINPresswire / -- The ebanga market size has seen significant historical compound annual growth, growing from millions in 2024 to a higher ...

Glycoproteins typically bind to receptors on the membrane of a host cell. Viruses that do not bud from the host cell membrane do not have an envelope, so they are called “naked” or ...

“This study explores the role of the skin as a potential route of Ebola virus infection and identifies, for the first time, several cell types in the skin that are permissive to infection ...