The role of the placenta in fetal development is being seriously under-appreciated according to scientists. A team studied 103 mutations linked to prenatal death in mice and showed that almost 70 ...

Yale researchers have shown that developmental abnormalities, including those that lead to pregnancy loss and autism, are controlled by the genetics of the fetus and placenta -- and not the mother's ...

SINCE statements of neither the day of conception nor the date of the last menstruation are usually reliable, most physicians consider an infant weighing less than 2.5 kg. (5/2 pounds) to be premature ...

Learn how placental malperfusion affects outcomes in Congenital Heart Disease and what genetic links reveal - keep reading to ...

The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has significantly affected the global healthcare sector ...

Although many women with recurrent implantation failure (RIF) go on to have successful live births, data on the potential ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Back to Healio A small study of pregnant women who were ...

As far as organs go, the placenta isn't exactly the most popular kid in the cafeteria. It's usually thrown away after the baby is born, a rather inauspicious ending for an organ that's toiled for nine ...

Significant advances are occurring in placental MRI – particularly the development of texture analysis, machine learning and radiomic approaches – and the time is now ripe for systematic and detailed ...

The effect of genetic changes on the placenta has not been systematically studied to date. Of 103 gene mutations that lead to the death of a developing fetus in mice, 68% caused defects in the ...