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  Chinese Researchers Find Direct Evidence that Zika Causes Microcephaly in Mice

  Chinese researchers said Wednesday they have found direct evidence that Zika infection causes microcephaly, a birth defect marked by an abnormally small head, in mouse experiments. Mouse fetuses injected with the Zika virus and carried to term within their pregnant mothers display the characteristic features of microcephaly, they reported in the...

  12 May 2016

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  Centromere Behavior Has Great Impact on Generation of New Wheat Germplasm

  Dr. HAN Fangpu’s group in the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB), Chinese Academy of Sciences studied De Novo centromere formation and centromeric sequence expansion in wheat and its wide hybrids, and found the centromere behavior has great impact on generation of new wheat germplasm

  12 May 2016

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  Fetal Mice with Zika Infection Get Microcephaly

  Zika virus disrupts neural progenitor development and leads to microcephaly in mice

  12 May 2016

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  Hterotrimeric G Proteins Regulate Plant Immunity

  The research group led by Dr. ZHOU Jianmin at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, collaborated with the group of Dr. ZHANG Yuelin at University of British Columbia, reported that the hterotrimeric G proteins positively regulate plant immunity by directly interacting with the FLS2-BIK1 immune receptor...

  25 Apr 2016