Children's National Hospital and partnering academic centers have found that newborns exposed to opioids in utero exhibited ...

Three key developmental genes - FGF8, PAX6, and WNT3 - were found to exert a lasting influence, guiding brain region differentiation as early as in the embryonic stage and maintaining structural ...

In an effort to overcome this, Zhicheng Shao at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, and his colleagues used human embryonic stem ... different regions of the brain. Finally, the researchers ...

Shariati is an expert in stem cell engineering, a field that uses stem cells—unspecialized cells that can form any type of cell such as gut or brain cells ... They targeted regions of the ...