Our First Major Breakthrough in Understanding How Zika Virus Attacks the Brain
Scientists strongly suspect a link between Zika and microcephaly, a disorder that causes abnormally small heads in newborns, but they’re not entirely sure. Now, a team of researchers may have figured out how this mosquito-borne virus attacks the developing brains of fetuses—and wow, is it nasty. The latest research, published in Cell Stem Cell, suggests…
