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Researchers discovered that Zika virus constructs nanotubes to transport infection across the placental barrier undetected.

This past year, the Zika virus has emerged as global ... which kills little baby mosquitoes before they ever mature into adults. As the modified bugs breed more and more, the mosquito population ...

The Zika virus builds tiny tunnels, called tunneling nanotubes, to stealthily transport material needed to infect nearby cells, including in placental cells, according to a team of researchers from ...

scientists at Rockefeller University in New York City and their colleagues elsewhere have now examined how Zika virus infection impacts adult brain cells. As it turns out, as it has for fetal neural ...

in which babies have abnormally small heads and symptoms that range from mild developmental delays to a fatal condition. Zika virus can also cause a neurologic condition in adults known as ...

Zika virus and dengue virus are very close relatives. Both are mosquito-borne flaviviruses, and both specialize in infecting ...

A recent discovery by researchers at the National Institute of Virology (NIV) has raised serious concerns regarding the evolving nature of the Zika virus ... infections in adults have been ...

Around 14 percent of babies whose mothers contracted Zika while pregnant ended up with a birth defect, developmental abnormality, or both, according a report released by the US government today ...