News tagged with craniosynostosis
Bone Implant Offers Hope for Skull Deformities
(PhysOrg.com) -- A synthetic bone matrix offers hope for babies born with craniosynostosis, a condition that causes the plates in the skull to fuse too soon. Implants replacing some of the infant’s bone with the biodegradable ...
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Nov 19, 2009 |
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Dental surgeon engineers tissue replacement
(PhysOrg.com) -- Earlier this year in a report in The Lancet, Columbia professor Jeremy Mao and his team showed that a joint could be grown with a host’s own stem cells, presenting a potential alternative for the 40 ...
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Oct 15, 2010 |
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Stem-cell disruption induces skull deformity, study shows
University of Rochester Medical Center scientists discovered a defect in cellular pathways that provides a new explanation for the earliest stages of abnormal skull development in newborns, known as craniosynostosis.
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May 25, 2010 |
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Pharaoh's Unusual Feminine Appearance Suggests Two Gene Defects
The feminine features and elongated head of ancient Egypt’s King Akhenaten may be attributed to two genetic defects called aromatose excess syndrome and craniosynostosis, said Yale School of Medicine dermatology ...
May 20, 2008 |
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Facial asymmetry persists despite surgery to correct congenital deformity
Adults and teens that underwent surgery as infants to correct a congenital condition that causes the forehead and face to appear uneven still have a degree of facial asymmetry years later, according to new research led by ...
Feb 26, 2008 |
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Relationship of brain and skull more than just packaging
People usually think of the skull as packaging for the brain and researchers usually investigate them separately, but a team of researchers now thinks that developmentally and evolutionarily that the two are incontrovertibly ...
Apr 13, 2006 |
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