In about one out of every 1,000 pregnancies, the neural tube, a key nervous system structure, fails to close properly. Georgia Tech physicists are now helping explain why this happens, having ...

Anencephaly is a serious neural tube condition that affects a baby’s brain and skull development. It happens very early in ...

The quail is a small, unassuming bird that glides rather than flies and prefers to hide under bushes than to perch on top of ...

Junctional neural tube defect caused by Prickle1 disruption as seen using advanced imaging.(Photo credit: Dr Jian Xiong Wang ...

A scientific breakthrough that could lead to the eradication of deadly neural tube defects in unborn babies has been ...