Sentences with phrase «infecting healthy brain cells»

VIRUS VICTORY Zika virus (green) infects and kills stem cells (red) in human glioblastoma tissue, without infecting healthy brain cells.

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In human cells and in mice, the virus infected and killed the stem cells that become a glioblastoma, an aggressive brain tumor, but left healthy brain cells alone.

Viral agents then burst out of the stem cells, infecting the cancer tissue — but leaving healthy brain tissue alone.

To determine whether the Zika virus caused this, a number of independent teams of researchers — including two in Brazil and one at the University of California, San Diego — created brain organoids from healthy human cells and infected some of them with the Zika virus.