PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 7, 2006--AVI BioPharma, Inc. (Nasdaq:AVII), today announced that the February issue of Nature Reviews Drug Discovery (Nature Reviews 5:103-106, 2006) chose to highlight the company’s recent Ebola study results. Referring to a “new generation of antisense technology,” the Nature Reviews Drug Discovery article noted the positive “drug-like properties” of AVI’s NEUGENE(R) technology and its safety profile in human clinical trials.
