“These papers are the link that was missing,” Shannan Rossi of the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), who was not involved in the studies, told The Scientist. “Up until this point, there was ...

Weighing several lines of evidence, scientists at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have determined that Zika virus infection can cause microcephaly and other birth defects.

Microcephaly is a congenital malformation that leads to a significantly reduced brain size and is often accompanied by developmental delay. An international research team led by Dr. Tran Tuoc from the ...

New insights into how dengue and Zika viruses cause disease reveal strategies the viruses use to successfully infect their host and a link to microcephaly. New insights into how dengue and Zika ...

Here are four things to know: 1. In the report, CDC officials detailed a wealth of evidence proving Zika causes the birth defect. 2. The World Health Organization declared the microcephaly epidemic an ...

During human brain development, neural stem cells must balance self-renewal and differentiation to build the cerebral cortex – the brain’s outer layer responsible for cognition and perception. If this ...

The birth of a human being requires billions of cell divisions to go from a fertilised egg to a baby. At each of these divisions, the genetic material of the mother cell duplicates itself to be ...

A team of international collaborators identifies a new cause of syndromic microcephaly caused by LMNB1 mutations that disrupt the nuclear envelope. Greenwood Genetic Center (GGC) researchers, in ...