Scientists have identified two genetic risk factors for the most common form of non-syndromic craniosynostosis, a birth defect in which the bony plates of an infant's skull prematurely fuse.

Also called sagittal craniosynostosis, scaphocephaly is the premature fusion of the sagittal suture, which runs front to back and down the middle of the top of the head. Scaphocephaly makes the ...

Metopic craniosynostosis is a rare condition in infants in which the metopic suture, a part of the skull, fuses earlier than it typically would. Learn more here.

The skull recovered first, and designated as Skull I of Locus L (Fig. 1), is the largest, with a cranial capacity of approximately 1,200 c.c. and with its coronal and sagittal sutures partly fused.

T reatments available to repair damage to the skull as a result of trauma, surgery, or congenital anomalies are limited and sometimes involve risks. A study recently published in PNAS (1) offers an ...

With $300,000 in support from a foundation that champions cutting-edge medical research, a biomedical engineer at UC Davis will start work this month on developing a new treatment for infants born ...

A newborn with the condition has a misshapen skull because one or more sutures closed too soon. My son was born with sagittal craniosynostosis, the most common and easiest to correct type.

Look for the sagittal suture – the squiggly line that runs the length of the skull – and note whether is it's completely fused. If it is, the remains are likely to be of someone older than 35.

It is called the sagittal plane because it goes through or is parallel to the sagittal suture, the line running along the top of the skull that marks where the left and right halves of the ...

SCIO, Ore. Olivia Prescott had a head shaped like a boat, protruding in the front and the back. A ridge ran through the center of her skull, like a dinosaur, her parents joked. Her temples pinched in ...