Humans may be paying a price for the absence of a tail. Scientists have found that tail-loss evolution in apes and humans has increased their risk of developing neural tube defects, or birth defects ...

Approximately 25 million years ago, an ancestor of both humans and apes genetically diverged from monkeys and lost its tail. No one had identified the genetic mutation responsible for this dramatic ...

Your baby’s brain is one of the first major organs to start developing. Learn more about fetal brain development and what ...

This is a review of the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Neural Tube Defects. This was an interdisciplinary meeting with the common emphasis on neural tube defects research. The ...

It's a longstanding mystery why salamanders can perfectly regenerate their tails whereas lizard tails grow back all wrong. By transplanting neural stem cells between species, researchers have ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In vertebrates, Evx homeodomain transcription factor-encoding genes are expressed in the posterior region during embryonic development, and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . New data from the ongoing Tsepamo study in Botswana showed that the prevalence of neural tube defects, or NTDs, ...

Cut off a salamander's tail and, in a few weeks, a near-perfect replacement grows. Do the same to a lizard and a new tail will regrow, but it won't be the same as the original. By comparing tail ...

A teenage boy has had an eight-inch long "tail" removed from his back. The tail had started to grow on the back of the teenager just after his 14th birthday. But over the past four years, the "tail" ...

Many simpler forms of life on this planet, including some of our earliest ancestors, don't have proper brains. Instead they have networks of neurons that fire in response to stimuli, triggering ...

Researchers have now taken a major step toward creating artificial intelligence -- not in a robot or a silicon chip, but in a test tube. The researchers are the first to have made an artificial neural ...