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The physics of brain development: How cells pull together to form the neural tube

  • April 20, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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The physics of brain development: How cells pull together to form the neural tube
In about one out of every 1,000 pregnancies, the neural tube, a key nervous system structure, fails to close properly. Georgia Tech physicists are now helping explain why this happens, having uncovered the physics that drive neural tube closure in a pregnancy's earliest stages.

Originally published at Phys.org

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