An engineered triphasic biomaterial scaffold successfully recreated the cranial suture stem cell niche lost in ...

Let's be honest: most newborns have funny shaped heads. It's okay to say it, it's perfectly normal. At birth the bones of the skull are in place but not fused together. The places where the bones meet ...

Craniosynostosis is the early fusion of the cranial sutures, which poses numerous diagnostic and medical complications. It is a frequent abnormality that affects 3–5 out of every 10,000 babies. Single ...

Surgical repair of craniosynostosis typically occurs during infancy. The procedure has a high success rate with a very low risk of long-term side effects. Most babies go on to live typical, healthy ...

In 2025, they travelled to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, where their treatment was carried out at SEHA Sheikh Khalifa Medical City in partnership with PureHealth. Following extensive planning and ...

University of Iowa researchers developed a gene therapy that could prevent craniosynostosis, a condition where babies’ skull bones fuse too early, potentially eliminating the need for invasive skull ...