Kyoto, Japan -- Mother Nature is an artist, but her craft of creating animal faces requires more than a paintbrush and palette. Such highly complex shapes originate from their respective transient ...

The 22q11 deletion syndromes are a group of conditions in which a characteristic spectrum of congenital cardiac defects may be associated with a wide range of noncardiological congenital anomalies.

Neural crest cells -- embryonic pluripotent cells within the facial primordium -- may be necessary for forming proper animal facial structures. Researchers have produced neural crest cell-rich ...