Ebola virus disease in humans is highly lethal, with case fatality rates ranging from 25 to 90%.
There is no licensed treatment or vaccine against the virus, underscoring the need for …

Ebolavirus disease causes high mortality, and the current outbreak has spread unabated
through West Africa. Human adenovirus type 5 vectors (rAd5) encoding ebolavirus …

Concentrations of trace metals in hydrothermal solutions from the southern Juan de Fuca
Ridge (SJFR) and the TAG Hydrothermal Field on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge are influenced by the …

Background For most classes of drugs, rapid development of therapeutics to treat emerging
infections is challenged by the timelines needed to identify compounds with the desired …

THE input of high-temperature fluids to the ocean along sea-floor spreading centres plays
an important part in controlling the composition of sea water 1–3 . Available data 1–3 show …

Suspended particles were collected from an area of active hydrothermal venting at the Trans-Atlantic
Geotraverse (TAG) Hydrothermal Field on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and analyzed for …

Arctic rivers typically transport more than half of their annual amounts of water and suspended
sediments during spring floods. In this study, the Sagavanirktok, Kuparuk and Colville …

In 1990 and 1991, particles from buoyant and neutrally buoyant hydrothermal plumes above
hydrothermal vents at the North Cleft segment of the Juan de Fuca Ridge were sampled to …

Inputs of pollutant lead to the Gulf of Mexico from the Mississippi River have declined by about
40 percent within the past decade. This decrease has been determined from annual lead …

Viruses of the family Filoviridae represent significant health risks as emerging infectious
diseases as well as potentially engineered biothreats. While many research efforts have been …