A new study, published this week in Science Translation Medicine, tells us more about the role that bacteria may play in the health of a newborn baby. The study found that the placenta, once thought ...

Scientists have shed new light on the role of the placenta in managing the relationships between maternal vitamin D and fetal development, according to a new study. Scientists have shed new light on ...

Scientists have shed new light on the role of the placenta in managing the relationships between maternal vitamin D and fetal development, according to a study published today in eLife. The findings ...

The placenta is the nutritive organ for the human fetus. It plays multiple roles in protecting the pregnancy from pathogens, producing the right endocrine milieu, supplying nutrients, and removing ...

The placenta has long been thought to produce serotonin during pregnancy. But in a new study, Yale researchers shatter the deep-rooted hypothesis—and show that the placenta doesn't produce serotonin ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. When Mana Parast was a medical resident in 2003, she had an experience that would change the course of her entire career: her first fetal autopsy. The ...

India, March 11 -- The placenta may hold clues about a child's future health long before birth.

Microplastics are ever-present in daily life — in water, food and soil. Now, they’re a fact in utero, too, a new medical report revealed. In a study of expectant mothers, microplastics were recently ...

When Mana Parast was a medical resident in 2003, she had an experience that would change the course of her entire career: her first fetal autopsy. The autopsy, which pushed Parast to pursue perinatal ...

Scientists have shed new light on the role of the placenta in managing the relationships between maternal vitamin D and foetal development, according to a study published today in eLife. The findings ...