Sentences with phrase «develop microcephaly»

Some babies may be born with a normal head size, but may have underlying brain abnormalities, experience slow head growth and develop microcephaly after birth, she said.

Children born to mothers infected with Zika can develop microcephaly, a severe disease characterized by abnormally small heads and severe neurologic disabilities.

Children without the CASK gene develop microcephaly and intellectual disabilities.

A far higher number of babies in Colombia have developed microcephaly related to Zika virus infections than previously reported.

Neither set of pups developed microcephaly, which Diamond says could be because the researchers infected the mothers so early during pregnancy that not much brain development had yet occurred.

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The virus and resulting fever have been connected to several birth defects, including microcephaly, where babies develop smaller - than - normal heads and possible brain damage.

Specifically, children develop a condition called microcephaly, which causes abnormally small heads and underdeveloped brains.

But health officials suspect it may be behind a surge in cases of microcephaly, a condition which causes babies to develop abnormally small brains and skulls — leading to permanent disability or death.

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).

Babies born with microcephaly may not develop normally, leaving them severely disabled.

An association between Zika infections during pregnancy and the birth of babies with microcephaly (a birth defect in which an infant's brain does not develop properly resulting in a smaller than normal head) was first suggested by Brazilian physicians in August 2015, and in November microcephaly cases potentially associated with Zika started to be recorded; three months later WHO made its announcement.

But the Brazilian government is now warning that the virus may be responsible for a dramatic increase in cases of microcephaly, a severe birth defect in which the brain fails to develop properly and the head is much smaller than normal.

The physical characteristic most associated with Zika infection is microcephaly, a birth defect in which the baby's brain does not develop properly resulting in a smaller than normal head.

Most of these women are still pregnant and are being monitored to see if their fetuses develop abnormalities including microcephaly.

Strengthening the link between Zika virus and microcephaly, scientists at UC San Francisco have discovered that a protein the virus uses to infect skin cells and cause a rash is present also in stem cells of the developing human brain and retina.

microcephaly A condition that leaves babies with abnormally small heads and partially developed brains.

Organoids grown from the cells of a patient carrying the gene for severe microcephaly, however, didn't grow as large because those brain regions didn't develop properly.

The disease has been linked to an increase in miscarriages, deaths in newborns, and birth defects, especially a condition known as microcephaly, in which the brain does not fully develop and babies are born with abnormally small heads.