Scientists have officially grown a notochord—the tissues that act as the “GPS for the developing embryo” by guiding the formation of the spine and nervous system. Previous attempts to create ...

Scientists at Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine, and the Department of Neurosciences and Pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego, have made a significant breakthrough in ...

In vertebrates, the skeleton of different regions of the body arises from different precursor cells. Researchers at the ...

In vertebrates, the skeleton of different regions of the body arises from different precursor cells. Researchers have now ...

The ideal fetal position for birth is head down, spine parallel to the pregnant person's spine, face toward the back of the pregnant person's body with the chin tucked and arms folded across the ...

For the first eight weeks, the developing baby is called an embryo. It looks like a tadpole. At about three weeks, the neural tube, which becomes the brain and spinal cord, is forming. At about ...

Researchers have identified novel mechanisms regulating the development of the spinal column, which could inform new treatments for congenital scoliosis and other related birth defects.

It also plays an important role in the proper closure of the neural tube—the part of an embryo where the brain and spinal cord develop—and in the normal development of major heart vessels.

Figure 2: In this 5-day-old chicken embryo imaged with an Olympus SZX12 stereo microscope equipped with fluorescence optics, GFP can easily be detected in the spinal cord. It is also important to ...

The precursor cells of the spine and ribs are somitic mesoderm cells, which arise from the sides of the embryo's back and form -- besides bones -- also muscles and parts of the skin. The third ...