Volume 26, No 7, Jul 2016

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
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Volume 26 Issue 7, July 2016: 753-754

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Neural stem cells attacked by Zika virus

Ha Nam Nguyen^1,2, Xuyu Qian^1,3, Hongjun Song^1,2,4 and Guo-li Ming^1,2,4,5

¹Institute for Cell Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
²Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
³Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
⁴The Solomon Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
⁵Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. Correspondence: Guo-li Ming,(gming1@jhmi.edu)

The current outbreak of Zika virus-associated diseases in South America and its threat to spread to other parts of the world has emerged as a global health emergency. Insights from cell and animal models to understand how Zika virus causes severe birth defects may lead to treatments and prevention of these diseases.

10.1038/cr.2016.68

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