On Oct. 13, 1976, exactly 38 years ago Monday, Frederick A. Murphy, a CDC virologist and expert in photographing viruses peered into a microscope and saw what he describes today as a “dark ...

The best way to describe the reaction to an outbreak of Ebola virus was penned by Dr. C.J. Peters in his book, Virus Hunter. Known as “the pucker factor,” it consists of “…an uncomfortable ...

Americans' introduction to the Ebola virus ... Researchers eventually realized they were dealing with a different strain, one now known as Ebola-Reston. Though its appearance under a microscope ...

The Ebola virus, which under a microscope resembles spaghetti, is thought to come from a fruit bat bite. There are five types of the virus, and four of them can make humans severely ill. Ebola virus.

The reason is because a substantial proportion of modern microbiology research uses the tools of molecular biology, for which microscopes are not needed. If my microbiology career had required the ...

The Ebola virus that's causing the devastating outbreak in West Africa didn't even have a name just 38 years ago when it first ... looked under the microscope at blood samples sent from ...

If you look at Ebola under a microscope, you’ll see a long, ... To see if A82V really makes a difference, they’ll have to test different strains of the actual virus on live monkeys.

You discovered the Ebola virus in 1976. How? My lab received a blood sample from a Belgian nun who had died in Zaire ... Under the electron microscope it looked like a worm.

The Ebola virus can hide in the brains of monkeys that have recovered after medical treatment without ... When we looked more closely at the tissues of different organs under a microscope, ...

Americans' introduction to the Ebola virus ... Researchers eventually realized they were dealing with a different strain, one now known as Ebola-Reston. Though its appearance under a microscope ...