Thank you for reading as, over the last 17 months, we’ve tracked the developing science, the progress toward a vaccine, and the many questions still unanswered about Zika virus. Still ...

The Zika virus is spreading rapidly throughout Central and South America. Here's what you need to know about the latest virus outbreak. The effects of the mosquito-borne Zika virus, which is ...

Sponsor Message "It's quite remarkable what the Zika virus is doing to the brain of young infants," Bale says. "Many of them will die often in infancy, and the majority, if not all, will then have ...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of California San Diego School of Medicine found the Zika virus killed brain cancer stem cells in laboratory ...

This PBS special was originally broadcast in August 2016 during the outbreak of Zika virus. It is being rebroadcast now in light of the current novel coronavirus/COVID 19 crisis. The public health ...

The Zika virus infects a type of neural stem cell that gives rise to the brain's cerebral cortex, Johns Hopkins and Florida State researchers report March 4 in Cell Stem Cell.On laboratory dishes ...

This past year, the Zika virus has emerged as global problem. The virus, which is primarily transmitted via mosquitoes, has been spreading around the Americas since May 2015. One of the reasons it ...

"Zika is the only virus in its family, which includes dengue and West Nile viruses among others, whose NS1 protein triggers the formation of tunnels in multiple cell types," Michita said.

In healthy individuals, the Zika virus causes flu-like symptoms. If a pregnant woman becomes infected, the unborn child can suffer from severe brain abnormalities as a result of mechanisms that ...

151; -- Health officials are now investigating if the mosquito-borne Zika virus is linked to a rare paralysis syndrome called Guillain-Barre. The syndrome results when the immune system goes ...