Understanding these early developmental processes holds the potential to reveal some of the causes of human birth defects and diseases, and to develop tests for these in pregnant women.

Nearly 13,000 Michigan children are diagnosed annually with a birth defect within one year of birth, according to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.

A 2022 study in Frontiers in Public Health examined data from 51,571 cases of birth defects among nearly 2 million births in China from ... National Institute of Child Health and Human ...

Zebrafish The key to understanding vertebrate development and the origins of human birth defects may lie with the fishes--that is, with the zebrafishes (Danio rerio). Using zebrafish mutants produced ...

Heart Defects Tend to Accompany Penis Abnormality at Birth — Prevalence is several times higher among boys with hypospadias, study showed by Nicole Lou , Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today July ...

Understanding these early developmental processes holds the potential to reveal some of the causes of human birth defects and diseases, and to develop tests for these in pregnant women.