Sentences with phrase «severe birth defects when»

At least seven new Yorkers, including one from Nassau, have been infected with the virus, which has been linked to a wide range of symptoms from flulike symptoms to severe birth defects when pregnant women are infected.

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But when Shinji Hirotsune and colleagues at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine accidentally disabled a pseudogene while making genetically modified mice, they found severe birth defects and a drastically limited life - span in offspring from the mutant animals.

When two completely tailless Manx cats are mated, the defects may be so severe that many of the offspring may be born dead or die shortly after birth.

Dr. Romain Lambrot explained that there was an almost 30 percent increase in birth defects when the fathers had insufficient folate in their diet: «We were very surprised... We saw some pretty severe skeletal abnormalities that included both cranio - facial and spinal deformities.»