A trio of mouse studies published today (May 11) provides some of the strongest evidence yet that Zika virus infection can cause birth defects. Researchers at the University of São Paulo in Brazil and their colleagues reported in Nature that the Brazilian strain of the virus could cross the placentas of pregnant mice, resulting in microcephaly in […]
NIH-Funded Scientists Detail Tissue Destruction Caused by Zika Virus During Pregnancy. Media Availability: Zika Virus Damages Placenta, Kills Fetal Mice For Immediate Release: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 Read full story
To stop the spread of Zika and prevent other infectious disease outbreaks,USAID launched Combating Zika and Future Threats: A Grand Challenge for Development. The challenge calls upon the global innovator community to generate cutting-edge approaches to fight the current Zika outbreak and to help strengthen the world’s response to infectious diseases in the future. Combating […]
This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to add the Zika virus to the list of tropical diseases under the priority review voucher program, which awards a voucher to the sponsor of a new drug or biological product that is approved to prevent or treat a tropical disease. (A voucher entitles the […]
A new Zika vaccine based on a simian adenoviral vector is being developed in Oxford to determine if it is immunogenic and can be taken to clinical trials. This development is part of a global rapid response programme. May 11, 2016 Zika Virus Vaccine Programme – Jenner Institute Read more
The model of Zika virus is a part of the non-commercial educational project Viral Park, which was launched by the Visual Science in 2009. The project includes models of HIV, influenza A/H1N1, adenovirus, Ebola and papilloma viruses. Models and visualizations of the Viral Park received Science Magazine and National Science Foundation awards, appeared on the […]
A chronological map of the presence of Zika only in those countries for which there is evidence of indigenous transmission by mosquitos, excluding the many countries that have notified imported Zika. infections. The following timeline summarizes the spread of Zika infection, country by country, from the earliest discovery in 1947 to the latest information as […]
Here we show that a prototype strain of ZIKV, MR766, efficiently infects organoids and causes a decrease in overall organoid size that correlates with the kinetics of viral copy number. The innate immune receptor Toll-like-Receptor 3 (TLR3) was upregulated after ZIKV infection of human organoids and mouse neurospheres and TLR3 inhibition reduced the phenotypic effects […]
Medicamento já usado contra malária pode ser capaz de blindar o cérebro dos fetos contra a infecção por vírus Zika. Remédio antimalária dá resultado contra zika – Saúde – Estadão 06 de maio de 2016 O medicamento, cloroquina, protegeu neurosferas, estruturas celulares que reproduzem o cérebro em formação, em até 95% Leia matéria completa
The recent association of Zika virus with cases of microcephaly has sparked a global health crisis and highlighted the need for mechanisms to combat the Zika vector, Aedes aegyptimosquitoes. Wolbachia pipientis, a bacterial endosymbiont of insect, has recently garnered attention as a mechanism for arbovirus control. Here we report that Aedes aegypti harboringWolbachia are highly resistant to infection with two […]
