Highly lethal Ebola virus has diagnostic Achilles' heel for biothreat detection, scientists say
Friday, April 5, 2013 - 18:00
in Health & Medicine
By screening a library of a billion llama antibodies on live Ebola viruses in the Texas Biomedical Research Institute's highest biocontainment laboratory, scientists in San Antonio have identified a potential weakness in the make-up of these deadly agents that can immediately yield a sensitive test.