Scientists have officially grown a notochord—the tissues that act as the “GPS for the developing embryo” by guiding the ...

Francis Crick Institute scientists developed a rudimentary human spine via stem cells in a laboratory. They have created a ...

In space, the fluid that separates our vertebrae expands, which led American aerospace engineer, Robert Zubrin to suggest that Mars’ low gravity could allow the human spine to elongate enough to ...

The human spine has been transformed into a weight bearing column, putting it under unprecedented stresses and dooming us to the likelihood of back injuries and pain. As remarkable as our ...

In a major yet surprising turn of events, scientists have managed to grow a human spine in a laboratory.As per Popular ...

directing cells where to build the spine and nervous system (the trunk). The work, published in Nature, marks a significant step forward in our ability to study how the human body takes shape ...

[When you compare] a human vertebra, a chimpanzee vertebra, [and] the vertebra of a lemur, you can see that the human and the chimpanzee are much more similar to each other when compared to the lemur.

Scientists have generated human stem cell models which contain notochord -- a tissue in the developing embryo that acts like a navigation system, directing cells where to build the spine and ...