In the human embryo, the neural tube forms between the 22nd and 26th day of pregnancy. Later, the brain and spinal cord will develop from this tube. The neural tube forms when an elongated flat tissue ...

In vertebrate embryos, the process of neurulation, which transforms a flat neural plate into a three-dimensionally patterned tube, relies on a sequence of morphogenetic events that are tightly ...

The first stem cell culture method that produces a full model of the early stages of the human central nervous system has been developed by a team of engineers and biologists at the University of ...