Researchers from the University of Louisville have identified the gene that may be responsible for the development of facial clefts, according to a study in Experimental Biology and Medicine. In the U ...

A new approach has enabled researchers to prevent cleft palate in mice genetically engineered to develop that birth defect. The scientists used a technique that they crafted to identify the short ...

Chelsea Sommer wants every child born with cleft palate to receive the care they deserve. The bilingual speech-language pathologist knows it can be challenging to obtain treatment for this complex ...

A new study, led by University College London (UCL) and published in Nature Communications, has revealed for the first time how genetic and environmental factors come together to form cleft lip or ...

Every three minutes, a child somewhere in the world is born with a cleft lip or cleft palate. The condition is medically correctable, often through a single surgery. Yet for many children, ...

(Los Angeles CA) Researchers at the University Of Southern California School Of Dentistry have uncovered another clue behind the causes of cleft palate and the process that leads to palate formation.

Babies born with a cleft lip or cleft palate, or both, will face some additional challenges in the early years of their lives, and so will their parents. Babies with clefts need to have surgery, learn ...

Cleft lip and palate are congenital anomalies that require multidisciplinary treatment approaches to restore both aesthetic form and functional integrity. Comprehensive management involves timely ...

For children with cleft palate, corrective treatment typically requires years of complex surgical operations for most of their childhood. But a relatively new surgical strategy developed at University ...

Researchers at University of Utah Health clarified a molecular pathway responsible for the formation of cleft palate and identified a new treatment to reverse this defect in mouse pups in-utero. These ...

UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine researchers have identified the genetic mutation responsible for a form of cleft palate in the dog breed Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retrievers. They hope that the ...

Like all of the individual elements of fetal development, palate growth is a marvel of nature. In part of this process, ledges of tissue on the sides of the face grow downwards on each side of the ...