Researchers from the University of Louisville have identified the gene that may be responsible for the development of facial clefts, according to a study in Experimental Biology and Medicine. In the U ...

A new approach has enabled researchers to prevent cleft palate in mice genetically engineered to develop that birth defect. The scientists used a technique that they crafted to identify the short ...

Chelsea Sommer wants every child born with cleft palate to receive the care they deserve. The bilingual speech-language pathologist knows it can be challenging to obtain treatment for this complex ...

A new study, led by University College London (UCL) and published in Nature Communications, has revealed for the first time how genetic and environmental factors come together to form cleft lip or ...

Cleft palate has been linked to dozens of genes. While studying one of these genes, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine were surprised to find that cleft palate occurs both when ...

Pioneering research that could lead to a breakthrough in understanding the causes of cleft palate in newborn babies has begun in Manchester. Dr Jill Dixon, in The University of Manchester's School of ...

Every three minutes, a child somewhere in the world is born with a cleft lip or cleft palate. The condition is medically correctable, often through a single surgery. Yet for many children, ...

Babies born with a cleft lip or cleft palate, or both, will face some additional challenges in the early years of their lives, and so will their parents. Babies with clefts need to have surgery, learn ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I’m pregnant with my second child. During the 20-week anatomy scan, my obstetrician detected my baby has a cleft lip. Does this mean my baby also has a cleft palate? How and when is ...

For children with cleft palate, corrective treatment typically requires years of complex surgical operations for most of their childhood. But a relatively new surgical strategy developed at University ...

UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine researchers have identified the genetic mutation responsible for a form of cleft palate in the dog breed Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retrievers. They hope that the ...