Jerusalem, July 19, 2011 -- How is it that a disc-like cluster of cells transforms within the first month of pregnancy into an elongated embryo? This mechanism is a mystery that man has tried to ...

About 300,000 to 400,000 fetuses per year from mothers with diabetes develop neural tube defects -- when the tissue that eventually forms the brain and spinal cord fails to form properly -- which can ...

Scientists funded in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have generated a mouse embryo model, or embryoid, that develops beyond neurulation—formation of the neural tube, which gives rise ...

More than 3 million women of birthing age in the U.S. and 60 million in the world have diabetes—a disease that occurs when blood sugar is too high. Even when controlled with insulin, and blood sugar ...