Transmission of the Zika virus throughout South and Central America has become a rising global public health threat. Spread mainly through infected mosquitoes, this virus poses substantial health risks because it can be passed from a pregnant women to her fetus, potentially causing severe birth defects.  In the newest issue of Breakthroughs in Bioscience, I examine the brain development process, placing special emphasis on how the Zika virus affects the growing fetal brain.Read it here: FASEB Breakthroughs in Bioscience - Secrets of the Human Brain Revealed: Development, Disease & the Zika Virus.