November 20, 2020
Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine and Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine have been awarded a five-year, $8.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate the causes of spina bifida, the most common structural defect of the central nervous system.
May 8, 2024
Spina bifida is the most common structural disorder of the human nervous system. The causes are largely unknown, but University of California San Diego researchers led a study that points to a link involving a chromosomal microdeletion — and also underscores the value of folic acid as a preventive measure.
May 6, 2021
…a woman living with spina bifida. Set in a Mexican American community in Los Angeles, the film is a coming out and coming-of-age story that also “aims to illuminate the experience of navigating public space in a wheelchair and address the current climate of tension that exists for undocumented people…
