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Three Harvard Medical School researchers are among a group that released a study last week identifying key enzymes that cause the deadly Ebola virus—findings that may eventually lead to an antiviral therapy that could be effective in treating the Ebola virus and others like...
...From these studies, we noted some intriguing similarities with reported properties of Ebola virus that gave us clues into how Ebola might invade cells,” Cunningham wrote...
Their study identified cellular enzymes that the Ebola virus needs to reproduce. When these enzymes are blocked, the virus loses most of its ability to infect, according to a news release from the National Institutes of Health...
Cunningham’s interest in the virus evolved from his, and the other researchers’, interest in how retroviruses infect cells, he wrote in an e-mail...
Because of the highly hazardous nature of the virus, it took the researchers a year to set up the system in which the virus would be studied. But once the research began, the testing went relatively quickly, according to Chandran, who attributed this in part to his experience in working with similar types of enzymes...