Groundbreaking work at the University of Toronto on fighting Ebola caught CNN's eye this week.
Research presented this week shows that a combination of three different HIV drugs "does a remarkably good job of fighting Ebola in the laboratory."
"If it works out, we'll be doing somersaults -- if I knew how to do one -- down the hallways," Dr. Donald Branch, one of the researchers, told the news network.
Researchers elsewhere, including the World Health Organization, were quick to point out that the results were very preliminary, and since the U of T team used a strain of Ebola that doesn't infect humans, their results might not pan out in the real world. However, the team is hoping to get access to samples of live Ebola - kept under high security, for obvious reasons - to pursue their research.
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Source: CNN