Sentences with phrase «developing brain and spinal cord»

Folic acid has long been touted as an important supplement for women of childbearing age for its ability to prevent defects in the baby's developing brain and spinal cord.

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During your first trimester, your baby is developing the neural tube cord, which will become the spinal cord and brain.

Much like folate, choline is needed to support spinal cord and brain development in developing babies.

The baby's brain and spinal cord will develop from the neural tube.

Choline helps your baby's brain and spinal cord develop properly, and helps prevent neural tube defects.

The device, developed by composer and computer - music specialist Eduardo Miranda of the University of Plymouth, UK, working with computer scientists at the University of Essex, should eventually help people with severe physical disabilities, caused by brain or spinal - cord injuries, for example, to make music for recreational or therapeutic purposes.

«It's working directly on pain pathways in the brain, spinal cord, and periphery,» says Ethan Russo, a neurologist and medical director of Phytecs, a Los Angeles, California — based company developing therapies based on compounds isolated from marijuana.

Now, to enable widespread gene delivery throughout the central and peripheral nervous systems, Caltech researchers have developed two new variants of a vector based on an adeno - associated virus (AAV): one that can efficiently ferry genetic cargo past the blood - brain barrier; and another that is efficiently picked up by peripheral neurons residing outside the brain and spinal cord, such as those that sense pain and regulate heart rate, respiration, and digestion.

Their breakthrough, published today in the scientific journal PLoS Biology, could eventually help develop tools to repair nerve cells following injuries to the nervous system (such as the brain and spinal cord).

Folic acid — or folate — can prevent brain and spinal cord defects in developing fetuses.

This technology may be developed into a new therapeutic treatment for traumatic brain and spinal - cord injuries, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and other neurological disorders.

«This technology may be developed into a new therapeutic treatment for traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and other neurological disorders,» Chen said.

The Dodt and Frank Bradke laboratories later developed the 3DISCO (3 - dimensional imaging of solvent cleared organs) method of imaging rodent brains and spinal cords by combining Ultramicroscopy with tetrahydrofuran - based tissue clearing (13,14).

Dublin — 9th March, 2018 — Researchers from AMBER, the Science Foundation Ireland - funded materials science institute have developed a new biomaterial which is capable of both regenerating tissues which respond to electrical stimuli (such as the nerves, spinal cord, heart, brain and muscles) as well as eliminating infection — an ever - growing problem in hospitals.

At issue are neural tube defects, which include anencephaly, a fatal condition where a baby's brain does not develop, and a paralyzing spinal cord deformity known as spina bifida.

In layman's terms, the bottom half of the skull develops in such a way as to crowd the cerebellum of the brain, impeding the path of cerebrospinal fluid movement around the brain and spinal cord.

The neural tube, according to the fact sheet, «is the embryonic structure that eventually develops into the baby's brain and spinal cord and the tissues that enclose them.»