MeSH tree: C05.660.207.620
Researchers have unraveled how mutations in a gene can lead to an incurable neurodevelopmental disorder that causes abnormal brain development in newborns and infants.
Feb 22, 2024
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Researchers at the Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona and the Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO) in Madrid have captured the world's first high-resolution images of the earliest moments of microtubule ...
Feb 1, 2024
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Doctors report they are seeing what they think is a new syndrome in babies who are exposed to fentanyl while in the womb.
Dec 10, 2023
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In 2020, then a sociology professor at the University of Texas at Austin and principal investigator of Decode Zika, Letícia Marteleto was leading a team interviewing 4,000 women in Pernambuco, the Brazilian state hit hardest ...
Dec 1, 2023
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Since dental X-rays became commonplace some seven decades ago, dentists and hygienists have been draping their patients with protective gear to shield them from the possibility of radiation exposure to body parts other than ...
Oct 27, 2023
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Zika virus infection in pregnant rhesus macaques slows fetal growth and affects how infants and mothers interact in the first month of life, according to a new study from researchers at the California National Primate Research ...
Oct 25, 2023
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Mice that were infected with Zika virus during pregnancy and developed microcephaly displayed less activity of Ndel1, an enzyme that plays a key role in neuron proliferation, differentiation and migration during embryo development, ...
Oct 24, 2023
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Before SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, there was the Zika virus epidemic, lasting from 2015 to 2016. The Zika virus can cause serious birth defects and abnormalities. During the epidemic, one of the most striking results of Zika ...
Sep 21, 2023
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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 2015–16 posed an extreme ...
Aug 9, 2023
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Brain development consists of a sequence of coordinated steps, which are mainly instructed by our genes. During these steps, the proper positioning and functionality of nerve cells in the brain (neurons) are critical—nonfunctional ...
Mar 29, 2023
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