When a vertebrate embryo develops, a group of cells self-organizes into the neural tube, eventually becoming the brain and ...

Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) is a rare genetic disease characterized primarily by the formation of heterotopic ...

The protein netrin1 has an entirely unanticipated role in organizing the spinal cord during early development.

This activity is orchestrated by BMP signaling, which occurs only within the boundaries ... guiding axon growth directly ...