Congenital heart disease (CHD) affects approximately 1% of live births. Thanks to surgical advancements, infants born with ...

sometimes accompanied by seizures or microcephaly (small heads) others had relatively mild symptoms, and were still able to hold down jobs and live independently. The gene appears to have mutated ...

Humans heterozygous for FOXG1 pathogenic variants, which typically arise from de novo mutations, display severe brain structural deficits, such as microcephaly ... Soo-Kyung Lee hoped to change that ...

Those bugs mate with female mosquitoes and pass on the gene, which kills little baby ... used to kill mosquitoes was linked to the cases of microcephaly, not the Zika virus itself.

Skull cast and cast of the endocranial cavity (endocast) from the Royal College of Surgeons in London of a modern adult human who suffered from microcephaly. It is strikingly similar to the ...

They found that ANKLE2 gene knockout (KO ... why don’t they also cause the microcephaly seen in Zika virus infection? It’s probably all down to location. Zika virus is unusual in that it ...

It does this by altering the gene and protein expression of the dermal ... and over 3,500 infants with microcephaly by January 2016. While there haven’t been any comparable epidemics since ...