Novel Technique Prevents Ebola from Copying Itself

Scientists from the University of Copenhagen and Phillips Universität Marburg report that they were able to prevent the Ebola virus from copying itself by inhibiting a specific enzyme. “And that may potentially prevent an Ebola infection from spreading,” says Jakob Nilsson, Ph.D., from the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research at the University of Copenhagen. The study (“The Ebola Virus Nucleoprotein Recruits the Host PP2A-B56 Phosphatase to Activate Transcri