Study suggests Ebola virus mutation caused recent outbreak
Thursday, November 3, 2016 - 16:31
in Biology & Nature
A study led by scientists at UMass Medical School demonstrates that an Ebola virus mutant dominated the 2013–16 epidemic by making the virus better able to infect human cells. “This mutation is not just located in some random location of the viral genome,” said Jeremy Luban, MD, the David J. Freelander Professor in AIDS Research […]