The discs allow movement of the spinal column and function like shock absorbers. A letter and number identify vertebrae. In the cervical column, the vertebrae are C1 through C7. The “C” stands ...

They have created a 3D in vitro model that mimics how the precursor structures that give rise to the spinal column form during human embryonic ... independently of the number of cells used for ...

A remarkably complete fossil of a young child suggests that key elements of the human spinal structure were already ... The specimen has the same number of neck (seven) and mid-back vertebrae ...

But the human spine also reflects our distinctive mode ... the first time in the fossil record the emergence of the number of the vertebrae in our history, when the transition happened from ...

Many features of the human spinal column and rib cage are shared among primates ... “We are documenting, for the first time in the fossil record, the emergence of the number of the vertebrae in our ...