[DManA]

Our understanding of life is exploding. It’s unbelievable to me the potentials we are on the verge of.

[AbeKrieger]

Alright! Immortality is just around the corner! Better start building colonist spaceships to clear some space...

[Billthedrill]

A BTT for some exciting news. This is just about the scariest virus out there and I do not except HIV.

[Neoliberalnot]

Ebola is a serious virus but epidemics can be contained with reasonable measures of quarantine and appropriate protective gear and sanitation. Fortunately, Ebola has not invaded the homosexual community, or like HIV, we would have several million cases spread around the US in order to avoid violating the civil rights of sexual deviants.

[Jubal Harshaw]

A minor point, but this sentence bothered me:

“The so-called Ebola virus glycoprotein, or ‘spike protein’ ....”

In the scientific world, “glyco” means “sugar,” and it comes from the greek word “glyco,” which means “sweet.” It’s just a bit remarkable to me that a SciAm writer and editor decided that “glycoprotein” meant “spike protein,” when it really means “sugar / protein [molecule].”

[donna]

(The human immunodeficiency virus, HIV, that causes AIDS also has this trait.)

If they already know this about HIV, where is the good news?

[mikey_hates_everything]

Imagine how different our culture would be if HIV killed as fast as Ebola.

[FReepaholic]

...Judith White, a microbiologist at the University of Virginia, says that arming researchers with the protein structure that Ollmann Saphire's group has described will allow them to "nip [the virus] in the bud,"...

Nip it, nip it, nip it!