News tagged with tube closure

One step closer to closure: Neuroscientists discovery key to spinal cord defects

Spinal cord disorders like spina bifida arise during early development when future spinal cord cells growing in a flat layer fail to roll up into a tube. In the Dec. 6 issue of Nature Cell Biology, researchers from the Jo ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Dec 28, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 1

New findings may shed light on brain and spinal cord birth defects

New research, published by Cell Press in the January 19th issue of the journal Developmental Cell, provides intriguing insight into how the nervous system forms during very early embryonic development. The study sheds light ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

Jan 19, 2010 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0