O vírus que causou tantos danos ao cérebro de bebês agora está sendo testado como um possível aliado no combate ao câncer no ...

Health experts are warning about a tropical disease spread by midges and mosquitoes, recently detected in US travelers ...

Mais de 4,5 mil crianças nasceram com microcefalia no Brasil desde 2015, quando o primeiro caso relacionado ao zika vírus foi identificado. Mães contam como é a vida dessas crianças ao longo desta déc ...

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The Zika virus builds tiny tunnels, called tunneling nanotubes, to stealthily transport material needed to infect nearby ...

A Secretaria Municipal de Saúde de Palotina confirmou o primeiro caso de Chikungunya no município. A doença é causada pelo ...

Heading south for the winter? Oropouche virus, a new infectious disease, has been reported in travelers from Canada and the ...

Infection with Zika virus in pregnancy can lead to neurological disorders, fetal abnormalities and fetal death. Until now, how the virus manages to cross the placenta, which nurtures the developing ...

The discovery came from a small-scale targeted screening of patient samples in 2023, revealing five Zika virus cases in Dhaka, according to a report published on the icddr,b website today (3 March).

Tunnel-building virus: How Zika transmits from mother to fetus The virus covertly builds tiny tunnels to cross the placenta, evading the immune system Date: March 17, 2025 Source: Penn State ...

"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.

Stealth virus: Zika virus builds tunnels to covertly infect cells of the placenta. ScienceDaily . Retrieved March 20, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 02 / 250221125338.htm ...