But the capacity of neural crest cells to form derivatives like bone and tooth-forming cells defies fundamental concepts in developmental and stem cell biology. A research team led by Martin ...

Neural crest cells have been thought to originate in the ectoderm, the outermost of the three germ layers formed in the earliest stages of embryonic development. But their capacity to form ...

Beste Kinikoglu and Yawei Kong, led by Dr. Eric C. Liao, cultured and characterized for the first time multipotent neural crest cells isolated from zebrafish embryos. This important study is ...

A type of embryonic stem cell, called a neural crest stem cell, that persists into adulthood in hair follicles was recently discovered by Maya Sieber-Blum, Ph.D., of the Medical College of ...

Once it pinches off, the cells that were once at the junction between the neural and ectodermal tissue produce the neural crest cells, which exit the nervous system and begin migrating (there are ...

Scientists developed a new technique for modifying neural crest cells remotely without using drugs. Using this technique, they learned how maternal fever during early pregnancy causes birth defects in ...

The Wei lab is interested in the regulation of cell signaling and tissue homeostasis by metalloproteinases and other proteins in development and disease. Project 1. The mechanisms of neural crest ...

Neural crest cells, which can be found below the hair follicle in the skin, are genetically predisposed to develop into neurons. This is not unexpected, as many cell types in the skin originate ...

In contrast to neural crest-derived stem cells, which have a limited self-renewal capacity, pNSCs closely resemble brain-derived NSCs and show the ability to sustain neurogenesis over an extended ...

A University of Toronto study reveals that neural crest stem cells, found in the skin and other areas, are responsible for the generation of reprogrammed neurons, contradicting the prevailing theory ...