It's not entirely understood why some children are born with orofacial clefts, such as cleft lip or palate. But a new study ...

A touching segment features a child with a cleft palate connecting with a puppy with the same condition. Language includes “half-a--ed,” and there’s some potty humor. (79 minutes ...

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The study included 60 neonatal puppies of diverse breeds [English Mastiff (5), French ... study were newborns who presented congenital malformations (hydrocephalus, cleft palate, pectus excavatum), ...

Babies born with a cleft lip or cleft palate, or both, will face some additional challenges in the early years of their lives, and so will their parents. Babies with clefts need to have surgery ...

Biologists have discovered that disruptions in transfer RNA function can lead to the development of cleft lip and cleft palate. Cleft lip and cleft palate are among the most common birth defects ...

Genetic variants Cleft lip and cleft palate, also known as orofacial clefts, can be caused by genetic mutations, but in many cases, there is no known genetic cause. "The mechanism for the ...