UMMS scientists offer first look at how our cells can 'swallow up and quarantine' Zika

(University of Massachusetts Medical School) Eight weeks after receiving their first samples of Zika virus, scientists at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) have shown that a very small protein we all have in our bodies, interferon-induced protein 3 (IFITM3), can dramatically reduce the ability of Zika virus to infect human and mouse cells.