Stephen Gire and other health researchers on the ground in Africa had some hope that the Ebola outbreak was coming under control or at least plateauing in late May. Then came the funeral of a healer ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- University of Iowa researchers working on a gene therapy for cystic fibrosis have discovered an unlikely ally -- the deadly Ebola virus. Researchers have found that a protein ...

(Reuters) - NewLink Genetics Corp, which licensed an Ebola vaccine developed by Canadian government scientists, has enough doses on hand to launch the first human safety trial of an Ebola vaccine this ...

Big questions have bedeviled virus hunters for 38 years: Why do people differ in their response to Ebola? Is it becoming more or less dangerous?... Virus Sleuths Chip Away At Ebola Mysteries Vincent ...

One mutation. A simple tweak in the Ebola gene — a C got turned into a T. That's all it took to make Ebola more infectious during the West Africa epidemic, scientists report Thursday. Two studies, ...

Scientists say new vaccines could protect against two deadly viruses, Ebola and Marburg. It's hoped they can protect people from an outbreak or from terrorism. NPR's Richard Knox reports. RICHARD KNOX ...

Nancy Sullivan of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and her coauthors created the vaccine by adding two genes from the Ebola virus to a chimpanzee cold virus; when ...

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AT FIRST GLANCE, a breakthrough in the creation of a vaccine against the Ebola virus might not seem to be of enormous relevance to Americans. Ebola is terrifying: It dissolves the body's internal ...

(Reuters) - NewLink Genetics Corp , which licensed an Ebola vaccine developed by Canadian government scientists, has enough doses on hand to launch the first human safety trial of an Ebola vaccine ...