Vaccines protect against fetal Zika transmission

In a paper published in Cell, researchers showed that two different vaccines restricted Zika virus transmission from a pregnant mother to the fetus and protected against placental damage and fetal demise.

The team tested mRNA-1325, which is an mRNA vaccine developed by Moderna Therapeutics Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.), and a live-attenuated vaccine from University of Texas Medical Branch. The group included scientists from UTMB, the National Institutes of Health and Washington University in St. Louis...