‘Minibrains’ Could Help Drug Discovery For Zika And For Alzheimer’sNovember 14, 2016 |
Known as “minibrains,” these rudimentary networks of cells are small enough to fit on the head of a pin, but already are providing researchers with insights into everything from early brain development to Down syndrome, Alzheimer’s and Zika
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Why Zika Has Infected So Many People in Puerto RicoOctober 28, 2016 |
The U.S. Surgeon general Officials said that one in four Puerto Ricans could be infected by the end of the year. A recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that 5,900 to 10,300 pregnant women might get infected during the initial Zika outbreak in Puerto Rico. So, why is Zika so much worse in Puerto Rico than in the continental U.S.?
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Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes will be widely deployed in two South American cities to combat viral infections
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The morning after Christine Grounds gave birth to her son Nicholas, she awoke to find a neurologist examining her baby. It was summer 2006, and Nicholas was her first child. There had been no indication that anything was wrong during her pregnancy, but it was soon clear that there was a problem. “Did you know he has microcephaly?” she remembers the doctor asking matter-of-factly
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Questions in Bioethics: Genetically Modified Animals, and Now HumansOctober 14, 2016 |
Tom welcomes Dr. Jeffrey Kahn to Studio A. Dr. Kahn is the director of the Berman Center of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University. Folks in his field think about things like the ethical ramifications of research, how doctors interact with patients, public health policy, and global approaches to things like food distribution and allocation of medicine
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Expecting MoreOctober 11, 2016 |
Pregnant women have been excluded from the clinical research agenda for too long, say bioethicists and medical specialists. Spurred on by the Zika crisis, they are pushing to close that knowledge gap. Featuring our Ruth Faden
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Why a Zika Vaccine Is a Long Way OffSeptember 26, 2016 |
Recent news articles have highlighted positive findings in experimental Zika virus pre-clinical vaccine studies in monkeys and described the start of two Zika virus vaccine trials in humans. These stories have spurred hopes that a Zika virus vaccine will be available to prevent this infection
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CDC Deploys New Rapid Response Teams To Fight ZikaSeptember 14, 2016 |
For many years CDC has sent epidemiologists, or scientists who analyze disease outbreaks and study ways to prevent future ones, to major disease outbreaks. But building on its experiences with Ebola in 2014, the agency also has created new rapid response teams, called CDC Emergency Response Teams (CERT), that bring expanded expertise to contain an outbreak as quickly as possible
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