The Department of Plastic Surgery at JIPMER, through the Smile Train Cleft Project, organised a nurses mentorship programme on rendering comprehensive cleft care through feeding and nutrition.

The White House hit back at recent news reports detailing Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's reported involvement in a second Signal group chat where he discussed military strikes on Yemen as a ...

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 ...

Cleft lip and cleft palate are among the most common birth defects, occurring in about one in 1,050 births in the United States. These defects, which appear when the tissues that form the lip or ...

Based on the existing evidence, we hypothesize that oral cleft-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are involved in the normal range of human face development. Therefore, this study aimed ...