When do peripheral nerves develop? Researchers used "mosaic barcodes" to prove that neural crest cells commit to their ...

Millions of neurons branch throughout our bodies, keeping them in close communication with our brains. This peripheral ...

Precursor cells in the embryonic neural tube are organized in a specific striped pattern which depends on the signals they receive (left). Lehr and colleagues recreated this pattern in a cell culture ...

Spina bifida is a serious congenital condition caused by abnormal neural tube development during early pregnancy. While folic acid supplementation has dramatically reduced its incidence, cases persist ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. What do the earliest stages of a pregnancy look like? Embryonic development has been extensively studied, but most of our ...

Early brain development is a biological black box. While scientists have devised multiple ways to record electrical signals in adult brains, these techniques don’t work for embryos. A team at Harvard ...

A group of scientists at UCL have successfully created mechanical force sensors directly in the developing brains and spinal cords of chicken embryos, which they hope will improve understanding and ...

Their findings, recently reported in the journal Nature, overturn longstanding assumptions in developmental biology and could ...