Can the placenta predict lifelong health? Research shows that placental function may influence future disease risk.

Scientists are uncovering how the placenta, long viewed as a temporary pregnancy organ, acts as a powerful biological predictor of lifelong health, linking prenatal environments to future risks of ...

We have all had one, and we owe our lives to it. It’s the first organ to develop and it simultaneously serves as the lungs, kidneys, immune system, and digestive tract, to name a few, in a fetus while ...

In mammals, signalling between the placenta and the embryo is essential for successful development. Here, a quantitative, time-resolved model describes the coordinated formation of the mouse embryo ...

Scientists have grown "mini-placentas" in a laboratory to help them better understand pre-eclampsia. Pre-eclampsia occurs in about six in 100 first pregnancies. It can put at risk both the mother and ...

From left to right, the researchers Nerea San Martín González, Águeda Castro Quintas, Helena Palma Gudiel and Lourdes Fañanás Saura. Maternal stress could leave epigenetic imprints on genes in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A deficit in the way the placenta expresses the gene for a hormone called insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) appears linked to ...