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    (Medical Xpress)?A team of researchers working at Oxford University in the U.K. has found what appears to be an Achilles heel in the Ebola virus?a pocket able to hold destabilizing compounds. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the team describes the pocket they discovered and two drugs that when used to occupy the pocket, caused the virus to become unstable and thus unable to reproduce.


    (Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers working at Oxford University in the U.K. has found what appears to be an Achilles heel in the Ebola virus—a pocket able to hold destabilizing compounds. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the team describes the pocket they discovered and two drugs that when used to occupy the pocket, caused the virus to become unstable and thus unable to reproduce.

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