The embryonic stem cells that form facial features, called neural crest cells, use an unexpected mechanism of moving from the back of the head to the front to populate the face, finds a new study. The ...

MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (April 25, 2012) – Developmental biologists at Tufts University have identified a "self-correcting" mechanism by which developing organisms recognize and repair head and ...

Certain birth defects of the face and heart can occur when babies’ mothers have a fever during the first trimester of pregnancy, a crucial time in an embryo’s development. Now scientists have figured ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 98, No. 17 (Aug. 14, 2001), pp. 9683-9687 (5 pages) The forebrain overgrowth mutation (fog) was originally ...