Every face is unique. Genetics helps to determine our features, but sometimes genes have errors which, in early fetal ...

Researchers at the University of Iowa are studying the genetics of cleft lips and palates to alleviate the financial and mental stressors of the condition on patients and their families. Clefts ...

A study conducted by an international research team, which included investigators from Seattle Children's Research Institute, implicates variants in four genes as a primary cause of non-syndromic ...

MAYWOOD, Ill. -- Children born with cleft lip, cleft palate and other craniofacial disorders face numerous medical challenges beyond appearance. Patients can face serious airway, feeding, speech and ...

Cleft lip and cleft palate are among the most common birth defects affecting children in North America. They occur very early in development, usually between 6 and 10 weeks of the pregnancy. At this ...

University of Iowa researchers conducted a study using frogs and fish to identify certain human genes are associated with causing cleft lip and/or palate when deleted. Clefting is a malformation in ...

Some children are born with cleft palates and, of those children, some have an asymmetrical face and a malformed ear. A team of scientists has taken an important step towards discovering the genetic ...

Researchers have found a gene that causes cleft lip and palate in mice, according to a paper in the April 26 PNAS. The finding also suggests a causal link between smoking and cleft lip and palate in ...

Once upon a time in Europe, pregnant women avoided rabbits to prevent their babies from being born with a 'harelip.' But, that isn't the only misconception about the condition now known as cleft lip.

Cleft lip is an opening in the upper lip of a baby. This occurs when the tissues of the upper lip and roof of the mouth do not join together as they should. Tissues from each side of your head join ...