In a first-of-its-kind surgery, a team led by a University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) neurosurgeon has successfully ...

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Additionally, it might shed light on disorders affecting the intervertebral discs, which are the shock-absorbing cushions that grow from the notochord between vertebrae. When these discs ...

Learning about the spinal and brain tumors was terrifying ... but they arise from remnants of the notochord, which is the precursor of the spine during fetal development. Dr. Labib said it ...

Model vertebrates are extensively studied non-human vertebrates (species with a notochord, or vertebral column) chosen for the ease of investigating particular biological phenomena in areas such ...

Fossils found in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia show traces of a notochord (a rodlike primitive backbone), a significant step in the evolution of vertebrates. Cambrian sediments found in ...

an inch-and-a-half-long creature with a spinal rod called a notochord, the earliest known chordate—the group of animals that would later evolve into vertebrates. This was the full flowering of ...

The coelacanth also retains a notochord—a primitive spinal cord—and an intracranial joint that allows the front part of the skull to move independently from the brain case. These features, preserved ...

Chordoma is a rare and slow-growing cancer arising from remnants of the notochord, a structure present during embryonic development. It most commonly affects the sacrum and cervical spine, accounting ...