Physical cues in the womb, and not just genetics, influence the normal development of neural crest cells, the embryonic stem cells that form facial features, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.

Human ES cells can now be used to induce structures with regionalized maxillary and mandibular primordia through the neural crest cell state, allowing for the recapitulation of jaw development in ...

More information: Brittany M. Edens et al, Neural crest origin of sympathetic neurons at the dawn of vertebrates, Nature ...

We have described the clinical manifestations of isotretinoin (ISO) neuroembryopathy (J Ped, 105, 595, 1984) and with others have suggested that disturbances in neural crest development may ...

Neuroblastoma, an aggressive malignancy originating from neural crest cells, accounts for 15% of cancer-related deaths in children. Treatment strategies include systemic chemotherapy, radiation or ...

Specific functional, electric firing properties of those neurons are shown by electrophysiology. Directing neural crest and sensory placode lineages Multipotent neural crest (NC) precursor cells have ...

Dental-pulp cells are derived from the neural crest, the part of an embryo that goes on to form the nervous system as well as bones in the face and skull. Researchers hope that dental-pulp stem ...