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Chances of a massive outbreak of Ebola that would either devastate the world or precipitate another Dustin Hoffman action movie just declined slightly. Researchers have found a way to block one of Ebola's entryways into the body. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5797949&view=rss&microfeed=true The human genome contains fragments of viruses that our species tangled with in our distant evolutionary past. Now new scientific research has isolated some of the viruses that still haunt our genomes, even after millions of years of evolution. In today's Scientific American, Katherine Harmon has a great roundup of new studies of the retrovirus genes that lurks in our own genome, as well as in the genomes of other life forms. More »
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Ebola is the poster virus for outbreak scares because it spreads extremely fast and kills 90 percent of its victims by causing them to bleed uncontrollably. Featured in science-scare book The Hot Zone and countless cheesy movies, Ebola is considered ripe for development into a bio-weapon. But now it seems that a group of U.S. researchers may be on the fast track to a cure. In an article published online today in PLoS Pathogens, they explain that they've discovered how Ebola viruses trick their way into cells, and have a drug that can stop this process in its tracks. More »
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