Korean researchers uncover genetic causes of spina bifida with American collaboration Breakthrough in understanding the genetic roots of a serious birth defect through international collaboration ...

Spina bifida isn’t the only condition doctors are addressing differently as more patients survive to adulthood. Dr. Weiner ...

The team began looking for 22q11.2del in spinal bifida patients. "All patients we recruited have the most severe form of spina bifida, and all underwent best-practice comprehensive genomic ...

“There’s a girl in a wheelchair, just like me,” then 4-year-old Ezra Spinelli repeats in the viral video. Since Ezra’s mother ...

held in place with a biomaterial scaffold to form a “patch,” helped lambs with spina bifida walk without noticeable disability. “When the baby sheep who received stem cells were born ...

Spina bifida is the most common permanently disabling birth defect that is associated with life. Each year approximately 1,400 babies born in the United States have spina bifida, according to the U.S.

Members of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Neurosurgery, the Global Alliance for Prevention of Spina ...

The neural tube forms very early in the first trimester ... getting enough folic acid can reduce the risk for neural tube defects like spina bifida by up to 70%. Although most Americans get ...