There are 22 bones that compose the human skull. These bones are like plates that join together at flexible joints called sutures. These joints are supposed to allow the skull to expand as the brain ...

A new study presents a detailed cellular atlas of the developing coronal suture, the one most commonly fused as a consequence of single gene mutations, leading to birth defects such as ...

Craniosynostosis is a rare condition in which a baby develops or is born with an unusually shaped skull. It happens when one or more of the natural spaces in the infant’s skull join together too early ...

When a child is born, their brain is only a fraction of the size that it will one day grow to be. As many caretakers will recall, an infant's skull is flexible and made of bone and fibrous material ...

Craniosynostosis is a birth defect in which one or more of the seams (sutures) in a baby’s skull close before the baby’s brain has fully formed. Normally, these sutures stay open until babies are ...