[3] Figure 1 illustrates the boney anatomy of the normal skull sutures and fontanelles. The newborn infant's skull is incompletely ossified and the cranial sutures are normally open at birth ...

The team, led by Giuseppe Intini, a bone biologist at the University of Pittsburgh, first compared the cell composition of the calvarial suture—which joins the bilateral bones in the roof of the skull ...

When babies are born, their skull is in three parts. The spaces between the baby's skull bones are called sutures and are filled with a flexible material. This is so that as their brain grows ...