Sentences with phrase «zika virus»
«The emergence of Zika virus has further complicated vaccine design, and emphasizes the need to better understand the molecular mechanisms that underpin protective antibody responses.»
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They produced Zika virus at the Biosecurity Research Institute and provided it to collaborators to support studies performed at several other laboratories.
By looking at the known structure of similar viruses, such as dengue, researchers have created this 3D computer model of what the Zika virus might look like
• Zika RNA cleared from blood plasma and urine within 10 days, but viral RNA was detectable in saliva and seminal fluids until at least three weeks after Zika virus was no longer present in the blood.
The Zika virus rampaged through the Americas in 2015 and 2016, charging out of Brazil and into neighboring countries inside the Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes.
Zika virus is transmitted by a specific mosquito called Aedes aegypti.
The researchers next established that 25HC is protective in mouse and monkey models of Zika virus infection.
«Using ultrasound screening for fetal microcephaly: Statement on ultrasound screening for fetal microcephaly following Zika virus exposure.»
Using human fetal «mini-brains» grown in 3 - D cultures, scientists determined that a specific protein produced by the Zika virus changes the properties of neural stem cells in the developing brain of an infected fetus, potentially causing microcephaly in newborns (Ki - Jun Yoon, abstract 103.06, see attached summary).
Zika virus infection in pregnancy causes severe disability in babies by attacking stem cells in the developing brain.
«Zika virus successfully diagnosed from semen.»
A new collaborative study led by researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) and UC San Diego School of Medicine has found that a medication used to prevent and treat malaria may also be effective for Zika virus.
In comparison with African strains, infection by the Asian strain of Zika virus more potently affected the p53 gene and genes connected with cells» responses to viral infection, such as interferons.
Traces of Zika virus typically linger in semen no longer than three months after symptoms show up, a new study on the virus» staying power in bodily fluids reveals.
The Zika virus is currently spreading in Central and South America; over one million people have become infected since spring 2015.
The Society for Maternal - Fetal Medicine released a statement on the use of ultrasound screening for fetal microcephaly following Zika virus exposure.
Spread by mosquitos and through sexual intercourse, Zika virus has also been linked to babies being born with small heads and brains — a condition called microcephaly.
Dr Harry Bulstrode at the University of Cambridge has received a Cancer Research UK Pioneer Award * to test the effect of the Zika virus on glioblastoma, the most common and aggressive form of brain tumour.
«Research findings may lead to promising Zika virus drug targets.»
But given its low cost, availability and safety history further study in a clinical trial to test its effectiveness against Zika virus in humans is merited.»
That's true in the case of the Zika virus outbreak currently marching through the Americas.
For more information on the Society of Maternal - Fetal Medicine's recommendations and the Zika virus, go to http://www.smfm.org/education/zika or visit SMFM's publications http://www.smfm.org/publications.
Investigators who recently performed detailed analyses of the targets of a key enzyme of the Zika virus have uncovered peculiarities of the viral enzyme, called the NS3 protease.
How sensitive are they to different Zika virus strains and are their results comparable to each other?
Scientists have revealed molecular differences between how the African and Asian strains of Zika virus infect neural progenitor cells.
There is still uncertainty around the origin and effects of Zika virus.
Dr Harry Bulstrode, a Cancer Research UK scientist at the University of Cambridge, said: «Zika virus infection in babies and children is a major global health concern, and the focus has been to discover more about the virus to find new possible treatments.
The overlap in gene expression changes when neural progenitor cells are infected by African or Asian strains of Zika virus.
Following recent outbreaks of Zika virus and the potential health dangers of infection, especially during pregnancy, scientists are striving to rapidly develop effective antiviral drugs that can halt transmission.
«We hope to show that the Zika virus can slow down brain tumour growth in tests in the lab.
SAN FRANCISCO — Cell biologists are learning more about how the Zika virus disrupts brain cells to cause the birth defect microcephaly, in which a baby's brain and head are smaller than usual.
In an effort to create a more precise diagnostic, the MIT team set out to find antibodies that would interact exclusively with NS1 protein produced by the Zika virus, as well as antibodies specific to NS1 from each of the four different strains of the Dengue virus.
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Magee - Womens Research Institute (MWRI) have devised a cell - based model of the human placenta that could help explain how pathogens that cause birth defects, such as Zika virus, cross from mother to unborn child.
Zika virus is found in Asia, Africa and South America, with Brazil and neighboring countries seeing a significant rise in cases in recent months.
«Anti-malaria drug shows promise as Zika virus treatment: Chloroquine reduces transmission of Zika virus from mother to fetus.»
Using our model, we predict large - scale transmission will not restart for at least another ten years — until there is a new generation in the population who have not been exposed to the Zika virus.
The results could provide insights into the Zika virus» recent emergence as a global health emergency, and also point to inhibitors of the protein p53 as potential leads for drugs that could protect brain cells from cell death.
Certain birth defects were 20 times more prevalent in babies born to Zika virus — infected mothers in the U.S. in 2016 than they were before the virus cropped up in the United States, a CDC study suggests.
The Zika virus can cross the blood - brain barrier, and could target cancer cells, sparing normal adult brain tissue and opening a potential new way to attack the disease.
The researchers are beginning to use their model to test whether Zika virus, and other pathogens associated with congenital disease, can infect placental cells and / or cross the placental barrier.
«We believe our mouse model more accurately represents the way Zika virus infects men, women and babies while in the womb,» adds Terskikh.
In a revolutionary first, Cancer Research UK - funded scientists will test whether the Zika virus can destroy brain tumour cells, potentially leading to new treatments for one of the hardest to treat cancers.
One such pseudoscientific claim was that microcephaly is caused by the MMR vaccine and pharmaceutical companies are blaming Zika virus in order to profit from selling Zika vaccines.
The Zika virus is most commonly transmitted in humans as the result of a bite from an infected mosquito or from an infected human to another human.
«One must bear the organic load of the environment such as blood, in mind, before reaching a conclusion about the Zika virus inactivation efficacy by a particular product.»
Researchers have gone on to study «proteins that cause antibiotic resistance» and to produce three - dimensional images of the Zika virus at atomic resolution, permitting scientists to hunt for weaknesses that new pharmaceuticals could exploit.
Landrum and her colleagues demonstrated the effect experimentally and reported the results in a 2017 paper in the Journal of Risk Research entitled «Culturally Antagonistic Memes and the Zika Virus: An Experimental Test,» in which participants read a news story on Zika public health risks that was linked to either climate change or immigration.
The Zika virus seems to have passed from a woman to a man via sex.
Zika virus may not be the black sheep of the family.
While there are no known cases to date of the general public being infected with the Zika virus through the environment, there has been at least one documented case of laboratory acquired Zika virus infection.