Technology which led to the recent Nobel Prize was critical in Purdue's research of the Zika structure
— Purdue University investigators Michael Rossmann & Richard Kuhn have been at the forefront of discovery by the help of a technology that soon led to a Nobel Prize in chemistry for 3 scientists. Rossmann, Kuhn & their Purdue study team earned international headlines in March 2016 while they set the structure of the Zika virus, that was made possible Utilizing cryo-electron microscopy. Most recently, the study team set How some antibodies neutralize contagions caused by Zika virus. They were the premier to chart the structure of any flavivirus while they set the dengue fever virus structure in 2002. In 2003 they were premier to set the structure of West Nile virus & were too the premier to do Extremely by Zika in 2016.
FDA confirms premier Analysis for screening Zika in blood donations
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The Chinese investigators too came lock to pinpointing the time at that the Zika graduated from unwelcome pest case to an international scourge. By March 2015, the Zika had arrived in Brazil & was circulating widely there. Or had the Zika acquired an ominous mutation before hitting the Americas? Then they infective human neural progenitor cells — the forerunners of mature human brain cells — by the Zika strain bearing that single mutation. The Zika virus' penchant for attacking emerging brain tissue has come into increasing focus in recent research.
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