Penn study identifies how Ebola virus avoids the immune system

Thursday, January 29, 2009 - 17:21 in Health & Medicine

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have likely found one reason why the Ebola virus is such a powerful, deadly, and effective virus. Using a cell culture model for Ebola virus infection, they have discovered that the virus disables a cellular protein called tetherin that normally can block the spread of virus from cell to cell...

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