In the Ebola experiments, Lacy-Hulbert, Bruchez, and their colleagues had been using a genetic screen called transposon-mediated gene activation to search for natural antiviral mechanisms within ...

The Ebola and Marburg viruses, both members of the filovirus family, wreak havoc on host cells with just seven open reading frames (ORFs) encoded by a 19-kilobase RNA genome. But a comprehensive ...

As New York City's first Ebola patient, Craig Spencer became the ... community in 1993 for her discovery that altering a single gene in roundworms could double their life span.