Millions of neurons branch throughout our bodies, keeping them in close communication with our brains. This peripheral ...
About 300,000 to 400,000 fetuses per year from mothers with diabetes develop neural tube defects -- when the tissue that eventually forms the brain and spinal cord fails to form properly -- which can ...
When do peripheral nerves develop? Researchers used "mosaic barcodes" to prove that neural crest cells commit to their ...
Their findings, recently reported in the journal Nature, overturn longstanding assumptions in developmental biology and could ...