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By: Kristin Kelley | Published: Oct 29, 2010

In 1881 British opthalmologist Warren Tay made an unusual observation. He reported a cherry-red spot on the retina of a one-year-old patient, a…

By: Angel Lopez | Published: Oct 29, 2010

Tissue engineering is a field of regenerative medicine that integrates the knowledge of scientists, physicians, and engineers into the construction…

By: Ke Wu | Published: Oct 29, 2010

According to the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), the standard American source on stem cell research, three characteristics of stem cells…

By: Erica O'Neil | Published: Oct 20, 2010

Prenatal alcohol (ethanol) exposure can have dramatic effects on the development of the central nervous system (CNS), including morphological…

By: Erica O'Neil | Published: Oct 20, 2010

Prenatal exposure to alcohol (ethanol) results in a continuum of physical and neurological developmental abnormalities that vary depending on the…

By: Corinne DeRuiter | Published: Oct 20, 2010

Somites are blocks of mesoderm that are located on either side of the neural tube in the developing vertebrate embryo. Somites are precursor…

By: Tristan Cooper-Roth | Published: Oct 20, 2010

In the US, one in 1000 births is affected by neural tube defects (NTD). A neural tube defect is a birth defect involving the malformation of body…

By: Inbar Maayan | Published: Oct 20, 2010

All sexually reproducing, multicellular diploid eukaryotes begin life as embryos. Understanding the stages of embryonic development is vital to…

By: Angel Lopez | Published: Oct 11, 2010

The discovery of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) provided a pioneering step in stem cell research. HSCs are a type of multipotent adult stem cell,…

By: Angel Lopez | Published: Oct 11, 2010

The purpose of regenerative medicine, especially tissue engineering, is to replace damaged tissue with new tissue that will allow the body to resume…