Over the weekend, Nature released a paper that takes a different tack towards sorting out the often complicated human family tree. Figuring ... the skull meets the spine, how much the jaw ...

This is particularly important, as a working notochord in human stem cells could help further research into how birth defects affect the spine or spinal cord. The researchers note that it could ...

Francis Crick Institute scientists developed a rudimentary human spine via stem cells in a laboratory. They have created a “trunk-like structure” that is around 1 to 2 millimeters long.

(photo credit: Wikimedia Commons) Modern humans have been evolving and developing the ability to walk upright for over two million years, new research into a fossilized spine of an early human ...