New research offers proof that that Zika causes microcephaly and other birth defects in the brain

Until now, most Zika research has chronicled damage to newborns who were inadvertently, and haphazardly, exposed to the virus. Now scientists have taken a different tack: they have deliberately infected developing mice pups and tiny clusters of lab-grown brain cells so they could observe and measure...

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