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Human neurons. © INRA, Muriel Coulpier

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14 Nov 2016

Bornavirus: an equine virus implicated in brain diseases in humans?

Scientists in the Joint Research Unit for Virology* and their partners have offered some answers to this question. For the first time, they have demonstrated that a protein in the Borna virus is able to disturb the formation of neurons in the human brain. Their results support the hypothesis that some neuropsychiatric diseases could be of viral origin.  These findings have been published in PLOS Pathogens.