UT Medical Branch Researchers Reveal Ebola’s Secret Weapon

A team of scientists from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston has discovered the primary host-invasion mechanism of Ebola virus that is responsible for its virulence. The pathogenic virus affects the adaptive immunity to prevent host defenses from destruction of viral proteins.

http://bionews-tx.com/news/2013/05/03/ut-medical-branch-researchers-reveal-ebolas-secret-weapon/

UT Medical Branch Researchers Participate In Genomics Analysis Of What Distinguishes Disease-causing Freshwater Bacteria from Harmless Strains

Researchers at The University of Texas Medical Branch have collaborated with a team of scientists from Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health, the FDA, the University of Maryland, the Maryland VA, and Emory University School of Medicine to examine the common waterborne bacterium Aeromonas hydrophila, which has increasingly been implicated in serious human infections.

http://bionews-tx.com/news/2013/04/25/ut-medical-branch-researchers-participate-in-genomics-analysis-of-what-distinguishes-disease-causing-freshwater-bacteria-from-harmless-strains/

UT Medical Branch, Sandia’s new weapon in the war against bioterrorism

Bioterrorism has become ad increasingly real threat in the modern world, even while quick, early detection of biothreat agents has been thus-far elusive. Sandia National Laboratories, who has shared a long-time partnership with the University of Texas Medical Branch, has been working to develop a simple, rapid biothreat detector capable of determining a bioterrorism attack before it becomes an epidemic.

http://bionews-tx.com/news/2013/04/02/ut-medical-branch-sandias-new-weapon-in-the-war-against-bioterrorism/