Their findings, recently reported in the journal Nature, overturn longstanding assumptions in developmental biology and could ...

When do peripheral nerves develop? Researchers used "mosaic barcodes" to prove that neural crest cells commit to their ...

Last year, researchers at the University of California, Riverside, identified the early origins of neural crest cells -- embryonic cells in vertebrates that travel throughout the body and generate ...

The peripheral nervous system begins to take shape long before birth. This crucial stage of human development can’t be ...