How to Use neural crest in a Sentence

neural crest

noun

• Without neural crest cells, your face would not exist.
  — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
• When did certain neural crest cell behaviors evolve?
  — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
• In bony vertebrates, including mammals, cranial neural crest cells rapidly migrate toward the front of the face.
  — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
• Mice, chickens, zebrafish and humans all rely on similar genetic programs to guide cranial neural crest cell development.
  — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
• That, in turn, seems to affect early embryonic development — specifically, a decrease in neural crest cells that migrate throughout the body and go on to form features of the head and face and pigment cells that give fur its color.
  — Amanda Schupak, CNN Money, 24 Nov. 2025
• On the molecular level, the shark neural crest cells looked remarkably similar to those seen in other vertebrates — the same core genes appeared again and again, the same developmental pathways were activated.
  — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
• That’s when a team of evolutionary biologists noticed that many of the physical traits that co-occur with domestication trace back to an important group of cells during embryonic development called neural crest cells.
  — Marina Wang, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2025
• Using a combination of single-cell RNA sequencing, advanced microscopy and synchrotron radiation micro-CT scanning, the team of researchers mapped how cranial neural crest cells move through the developing shark head and eventually form the facial skeleton.
  — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026