Tag: Zika

  • Nation & World

    CRISPR enzyme programmed to kill viruses in human cells

    Researchers have turned a CRISPR enzyme into an antiviral that can be programmed to detect and destroy RNA-based viruses in human cells.

    4 minutes
    CrispR illustration
  • Nation & World

    How Zika infects the growing brain

    Studies have suggested that the Zika virus enters neural progenitor cells by grabbing onto a specific protein called AXL on the cell surface. Now, scientists at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and Novartis have shown that this is not the only route of infection. The scientists demonstrated that Zika infected neural progenitor cells even when…

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Paper disc can quickly detect Zika virus in the field

    Researchers at the Wyss Institute at Harvard have developed a workflow that could diagnose a patient with Zika within two to three hours. The goal of developing the low-cost, rapid paper-based diagnostic system for strain-specific detection of the Zika virus is its use in the field to screen blood, urine, or saliva samples.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Deploying mosquitoes against Zika

    Flaminia Catteruccia, an associate professor of immunology and infectious diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, speaks to the Gazette about using genetically modified mosquitoes to combat the Zika virus and other diseases.

    7 minutes