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.

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To learn about Ebola's effects on the immune system, the team measured gene and protein activity across the genome in many types of both infected and uninfected immune cells, and monitored changes ...

The second gene is known as CD74 — specifically, a variant known as p41. Those genes have previously been thought to be involved in conventional immune responses involving T cells and B cells.

Ebola VSV contains genes from Ebola and a virus that primarily infects cattle (VSV). The research centers on a section of a specific biological structure called the mucin-like domain (MLD) ...

His latest focus has been on Ebola's VP40 protein, encoded by one of the seven genes. "VP40 forms the virus's matrix layer, a layer of protein beneath the lipid envelope.

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April 2019 issue of ACS Sensors. Du’s research was published in the April 2019 issue of ACS Sensors. The article “Rapid and Fully Microfluidic Ebola Virus Detection with CRISPR-Cas13a,” features an ...

They demonstrated effective targeting of two Ebola viral genes -NP and VP24—which promote Ebola replication and inhibit a proper immune response against the virus, respectively.