A Native American adolescent’s skull at the Penn Museum moves closer home
The Museum has established the deceased's tribal heritage and is proceeding with the steps toward repatriating the remains.
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Penn Museum to return 19th century skull of Indigenous child to tribe leaders in Maine
The remains are part of the controversial Morton Collection, which was placed in storage in 2020 to reexamine unethical ...
A skull-mapping app can greatly improve safety and accuracy of a common neurosurgical procedure
Access to potentially life-saving neurosurgical care remains very uneven worldwide, with potentially life-threatening ...
An Archaeologist Discovered the Fractured Pieces of a 1 Million-Year-Old Face
The oldest in Western Europe, this fractured skull has introduced a series of new questions about early humanity.
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Numerical Evaluation of the Influence of Skull Heterogeneity on Transcranial Ultrasonic Focusing
A heterogeneous skull bone causes wave bending but minimal focusing deflection ... Under that hypothesis, the stress vector σ in the elastic equations is equivalent to the sound pressure p in the ...
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Resolving homology in the face of shifting germ layer origins: Lessons from a major skull vault boundary
The vertebrate skull varies widely in shape, accommodating diverse strategies of feeding and predation. The braincase is composed of several flat bones that meet at flexible joints called sutures.
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A Versatile Method for Viral Transfection of Calcium Indicators in the Neonatal Mouse Brain
AAV vector encoding GCaMP (U ... Note: do not push hard on the skull or the drillbit might pierce the bone and damage the dura/brain. 8) Once the exposed skull is clear of periosteum and dry, apply ...