Bioengineering researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a soft, thin, stretchable bioelectronic device that can be implanted into a ...

Early neural development begins around the third week of embryonic development when part of the ectoderm thickens to form the neural plate. This plate folds inward into the neural groove, while the ...

The neural crest is a transient, multipotent cell population unique to vertebrates that emerges at the border of the neural plate during early embryogenesis. Following induction by precise gradients ...

Zebrafish neural crest cells migrating through extremely confined embryonic tissues deform their nuclei dramatically yet ...

The brain is often viewed as developing from a single starting pool of cells, but recent research suggests a different story.

A large mixed-methods study of Chinese women finds that while nearly all know folic acid prevents neural tube defects, fewer than a third adhere to the full recommended supplementation regimen.

In about one out of every 1,000 pregnancies, the neural tube, a key nervous system structure, fails to close properly. Georgia Tech physicists are now helping explain why this happens, having ...

Discover the first images of cytonemes during mammalian neural development, serving as express routes to establish morphogen gradients and tissue patterning. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital ...

As an embryo grows, there is a continuous stream of communication between cells to form tissues and organs. Cells need to read numerous cues from their environment, and these may be chemical or ...

Late last week, we started seeing headlines about how new research was suggesting we might have two brains instead of the one that seems to show up on MRI scans. As is so often the case, these rumors ...