Genetics of human brain development

Y Zhou, H Song, G Ming - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Brain development in humans is achieved through precise spatiotemporal genetic control,
the mechanisms of which remain largely elusive. Recently, integration of technological …

Drug repositioning: Progress and challenges in drug discovery for various diseases

Y Hua, X Dai, Y Xu, G **ng, H Liu, T Lu, Y Chen… - European journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Compared with traditional de novo drug discovery, drug repurposing has become an
attractive drug discovery strategy due to its low-cost and high efficiency. Through a …

[HTML][HTML] Human pluripotent stem cell-derived neural cells and brain organoids reveal SARS-CoV-2 neurotropism predominates in choroid plexus epithelium

F Jacob, SR Pather, WK Huang, F Zhang, SZH Wong… - Cell stem cell, 2020 - cell.com
Neurological complications are common in patients with COVID-19. Although severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causal pathogen of COVID-19, has …

New insights into the development of the human cerebral cortex

Z Molnár, GJ Clowry, N Šestan, A Alzu'bi… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The cerebral cortex constitutes more than half the volume of the human brain and is
presumed to be responsible for the neuronal computations underlying complex phenomena …

The use of brain organoids to investigate neural development and disease

E Di Lullo, AR Kriegstein - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2017 - nature.com
Understanding the development and dysfunction of the human brain is a major goal of
neurobiology. Much of our current understanding of human brain development has been …

Pathogenesis of Zika virus infection

MI Giraldo, M Gonzalez-Orozco… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Zika virus (ZIKV) is an emerging virus from the Flaviviridae family that is transmitted to
humans by mosquito vectors and represents an important health problem. Infections in …

Drug repurposing for antimicrobial discovery

MA Farha, ED Brown - Nature microbiology, 2019 - nature.com
Antimicrobial resistance continues to be a public threat on a global scale. The ongoing need
to develop new antimicrobial drugs that are effective against multi-drug-resistant pathogens …

Brain-region-specific organoids using mini-bioreactors for modeling ZIKV exposure

X Qian, HN Nguyen, MM Song, C Hadiono, SC Ogden… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Cerebral organoids, three-dimensional cultures that model organogenesis, provide a new
platform to investigate human brain development. High cost, variability, and tissue …

Zika virus and birth defects—reviewing the evidence for causality

SA Rasmussen, DJ Jamieson, MA Honein… - … England Journal of …, 2016 - Mass Medical Soc
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An update on Zika virus infection

D Baud, DJ Gubler, B Schaub, MC Lanteri, D Musso - The Lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
The epidemic history of Zika virus began in 2007, with its emergence in Yap Island in the
western Pacific, followed in 2013–14 by a larger epidemic in French Polynesia, south …