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By Gift BritonScientists are developing a single vaccine to protect against three deadly viruses that regularly strike Africa: Ebola Zaire, Sudan Ebola virus, and Marburg virus.These viruses cause ...

These assays use either hyperimmune serum or virus protein-specific (e.g., nucleoprotein) antibodies to capture MARV antigen. [66, 73] Direct IgM and IgG ELISAs, as well as IgM-capture ELISAs, are ...

They gathered every genome that has been sequenced from a human virus — 679 in total. They copied pieces of the viral genomes and put them into human cells.

NB.1.8.1 has mutations that could increase the virus’s transmissibility and decrease the efficacy of certain neutralizing antibodies against it.

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