Fetus Heart Races When Mom Reads Poetry; New Findings Reveal Fetuses Recognize Mother's Voice In-utero
New research findings on the ability of a fetus to recognize its mother's voice and even distinguish it from other female voices confirms what scientists have speculated about for more than 20 years - that experiences in the womb help shape newborn prefer

Lola regulates Drosophila olfactory projection neuron identity and targeting specificity
Longitudinals lacking (lola) is required for wiring of axons and dendrites of most PN classes, and suggest a need for its molecular diversity.

Calcineurin Helps Newborns Breathe Easy
It is only very late in pregnancy that the lungs of the fetus complete their development so that the fetus will be able to breathe air when it is born.

Nerve Navigation Findings Prompt New Direction For Spinal Cord Research
A piece of the puzzle of how nerves find their way across the midline of the brain and spinal cord in a developing embryo has been found by Medical College of Georgia researchers.

Possible New Cell Type Found In Developing Inner Ear
The answer to how the complex, cavernous inner ear forms from a mostly homogenous group of cells may be that it doesn't

Ozone Levels May Raise Risk Of Underweight Births: Common Pollutants Linked To Fetal Growth Retardation
Babies born to women exposed to high ozone levels during pregnancy are at heightened risk for being significantly underweight, according to researchers ...

Scientists Discover Key Ingredient In Sexual Reproduction
People have wondered exactly how sperm-egg contact initiates development... the answer begins with the build-up of nitric oxide gas inside the sperm, says biologist.

The Embryo and Its Future
The preimplantation mammalian embryo from different species appears sensitive to the environment in which it develops, either in vitro or in vivo, for example, in response to culture conditions or maternal diet.

Scientists Discover New Gene Essential For The Development
Biologists at the University of California, San Diego and the Johns Hopkins University have discovered a gene that plays a key role in initiating changes in the brain in response to sensory experience

Making A Face: A New And Earlier Marker Of Neural Crest Development
The fate of cells that go on to form the face, skull and nerve centers of the head and neck in vertebrates is determined much earlier in development than previously thought

The nutritional basis of the fetal origins of adult disease
The risks of a number of chronic diseases in adulthood may have their origins before birth. Such diseases include non insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, hypertension and coronary heart disease. The article focused on nutrition as the hypothesized primar

Regulatory Pathway In Brain Development Possible Basis For Malformations
Researchers have identified a genetic regulator of brain development that sheds new light on how immature neural cells choose between proliferation and differentiation.

Gene-nutrient interactions during fetal development
This article describes the role of interaction between genes and nutrients during fetal development particularly the possible involvement in the prenatal programming of glucose metabolism in the adult.

SIDS Infants Show Abnormalities In Brain Area Controlling Breathing, Heart Rate
Infants who die of sudden infant death syndrome have abnormalities in the brainstem, a part of the brain that helps control heart rate, breathing, blood pressure, temperature and arousal,...

New Insights Into Neural Tube Defects
Environmental and genetic factors lead to neural tube defects in 1 in every 1,000 births and cause 1 in 20 of every spontaneous abortion.

Molecule Does More Than Slice and Dice RNA
Scientists has peeled back some of the mystery of how cells are able to turn off genes selectively to control critical events of development. The new insights arise from the first clear molecular images of the structure of Dicer, an enzyme that enables ce