Microcephaly is a congenital malformation that leads to a significantly reduced brain size and is often accompanied by developmental delay. An international research team led by Dr. Tran Tuoc from the ...

Weighing several lines of evidence, scientists at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have determined that Zika virus infection can cause microcephaly and other birth defects.

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are seen in a lab at the Fiocruz institute in the Brazilian city of Recife. A report last week has raised questions about a pesticide used to kill mosquito larvae, linking its ...

Prenatal exposure to viruses capable of infecting the fetal brain, particularly in the first trimester, can cause a range of developmental defects in the baby. The Zika epidemic in Brazil during ...

During human brain development, neural stem cells must balance self-renewal and differentiation to build the cerebral cortex – the brain’s outer layer responsible for cognition and perception. If this ...

“These papers are the link that was missing,” Shannan Rossi of the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), who was not involved in the studies, told The Scientist. “Up until this point, there was ...