A deficit in the way the placenta expresses the gene for a hormone called insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) appears linked to insulin resistance during pregnancy, researchers reported. Photo by ...

The first stages of placental development take place days before the embryo starts to form in human pregnancies. The finding highlights the importance of healthy placental development in pregnancy, ...

During the first weeks of pregnancy, the developing placenta in a mother's womb undergoes a dramatic change. Individual cells ...

For the first time, researchers have mapped the complete trajectory of placental development, helping shed new light on why pregnancy disorders happen. Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, ...

Now, scientists at Scripps Research have identified a key player in the placenta's transformation-a molecule called ...

Researchers have found evidence that the placenta plays an important role in fetal brain development during the early stages of pregnancy. Experiments in mice show that during a key period, the ...

Your baby has been born, but there’s one final step — delivering the placenta. Here’s what to expect from this last stage 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 ...

Women with sickle cell disease have a significantly higher likelihood of developing preeclampsia than the general population, but a blood test could identify which patients have the greatest risk.A ...

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