How to be a good host (for Zika virus)
(PHYSorg.com Medicine & Health)

Three years after the Zika virus swept through tropical and subtropical South America, the Caribbean, Florida, and Texas, much remains unknown about what the virus needs to infect and damage its host cells in the brain. Now Whitehead Institute scientists have identified several requirements for Zika virus infection, providing new insights into the virus` biology as well as potential therapeutic targets to stop infection. Their work is described in the online the week of April 22 in the journal PNAS.