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 ...

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 ...

Fetal MRI can be useful for analysis of the fetal spine if there is a suggestion of severe scoliosis and there is concern for diastematomyelia or vertebral malformations. Three-dimensional ...

In vertebrates, the skeleton of different regions of the body arises from different precursor cells. Researchers have now discovered that these skeletal cells do not just differ in their developmental ...

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 ...

Scientists at Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine, and the Department of Neurosciences and Pediatrics at the ...

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 group ...