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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 and collaborators have identified new genetic mutations that likely cause the common form of cleft lip and palate. The results could eventually help clinicians predict a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 palate is the most common craniofacial anomaly. Affected individuals require extensive medical and psychosocial support. Although cleft palate has a complex and poorly understood etiology, low ...

Having a baby is a miraculous and a beautiful journey but any birth defects can kill the joy, cause worry and anxiety. One birth defect is a cleft lip or palate or having a split on the upper lip or ...