{"id":3450,"date":"2014-11-07T12:34:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T17:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3450"},"modified":"2014-11-10T12:40:15","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T17:40:15","slug":"ebola-how-zmab-and-zmapp-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/ebola-how-zmab-and-zmapp-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola: how ZMAb, and ZMapp, works"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3447\" style=\"width: 335px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pngbase647571e401f2d10a39.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3447\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3447\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pngbase647571e401f2d10a39.png\" alt=\"The image depicts the structure of the Ebola virus surface glycoprotein (the protein targeted by the antibody cocktail ZMAb). (Image Credit: Jonathan Audet)\" width=\"325\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pngbase647571e401f2d10a39.png 325w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pngbase647571e401f2d10a39-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The image depicts the structure of the Ebola virus surface glycoprotein (the protein targeted by the antibody cocktail ZMAb). (Image Credit: Jonathan Audet)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Researchers at the Public Health Agency of Canada have studied how the experimental Ebola-treating antibody cocktail ZMAb \u2013 a major constituent of the drug ZMApp &#8211; fights the virus. They report that the drug binds to the proteins on the surface of the virus and neutralises its activity. The researchers say the findings may help in the design of other treatments against Ebola virus infection.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>More resources for journalists covering Ebola<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Our backgrounder <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemediacentre.ca\/smc\/docs\/SMCCEbolaBackgrounder-Phase1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Preparing for Ebola<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/site\/extra\/ebola\/\" target=\"_blank\">Special collection: The Ebola epidemic<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Because of the current outbreak, Science and Science Translational Medicine is making their \u00a0research and news articles on Ebola freely available.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eboladeeply.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ebola Deeply<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">When you want to catch up quickly with the coverage, Ebola Deeply is an independent digital media project led by journalists and technologists. The project is funded in part by the World Economic Forum, Columbia University\u2019s Graduate School of Journalism and the Baker Institute at Rice University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the Public Health Agency of Canada have studied how the experimental Ebola-treating antibody cocktail ZMAb \u2013 a major constituent of the drug ZMApp &#8211; fights the virus. They report that the drug binds to the proteins on the surface of the virus and neutralises its activity. The researchers say the findings may help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3447,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[2233,51,53,476],"class_list":["post-3450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-tip","tag-ebola","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-public-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pngbase647571e401f2d10a39.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-TE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3451,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions\/3451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}