A teratogen is an environmental factor that a person is exposed to during their pregnancy that may affect the baby’s development, resulting in birth defects. In fact, around 4% to 5% of birth defects ...

Every face is unique. Genetics helps to determine our features, but sometimes genes have errors, which, in early fetal development, can result in babies with facial differences such as a cleft lip or ...

To examine the potential effect of thyroid hormone trajectories on children’s cognitive development (3–6 years) and the critical period when maternal thyroid dysfunction during pregnancy might act. We ...

A new study in mice from University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers showed that an unhealthy vaginal microbiome in pregnant mothers in combination with an unhealthy diet contributed to ...

Recent single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) analyses have offered much insight into the gene expression profiles in early-stage kidney development. However, comprehensive gene expression profiles ...

Fetal development is a critical stage with effects that can last throughout life. Yet, identifying the effects of maternal psychological stress on the fetus has been difficult, mainly because ...

Alcohol-related birth defects (ARBDs) are differences in physical development that result from a fetus becoming exposed to alcohol during pregnancy. ARBDs belong to a group of conditions known as ...