Placenta accreta spectrum (PAS) used to be a rare pregnancy condition, but it now affects roughly 14,000 pregnancies annually ...

New Delhi: Women who get pregnant in old age generally suffer changes in the placenta, which in turn, means that baby boy being born to such mothers are more likely to develop heart problems later in ...

Scientists demonstrate the direct transmission of bisphenol A (BPA) from a mother to her developing child via the placenta could negatively impact fetal brain development. In a new study, scientists ...

The placenta could be one reason why some women develop gestational diabetes during pregnancy, a new study finds. A deficit in the way the placenta expresses the gene for a hormone called insulin-like ...

Research at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California's (USC) Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute shows for the first time that the human placenta plays an active role in ...

A new study solidifies an important role for both TLK1 and TLK2 in genome stability. This work is also the first to report on the key role of the TLK2 gene in mouse embryo development. The placenta, a ...

Oliver Griffith receives funding from Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies. Considering how different they look from the outside, it might be surprising that all vertebrates – animals with a backbone ...

Pregnant women who contract Covid-19 face an increased risk of complications such as preterm birth and, in the worst case, a stillborn child, a joint study by researchers at Hong Kong universities has ...

Should all pregnant women be taking vitamin D supplements as well as folic acid to prevent pregnancy complications? That’s the suggestion from new research that could potentially save the lives of ...