What fathers eat before conception could significantly influence fetal growth and placenta development, new research in mice ...

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 ...

AIIMS Delhi researchers detail how urban air pollution impacts foetal development by crossing the placenta and triggering ...

The ICMR-funded study, published in EMBO Molecular Medicine, provides the most comprehensive molecular pathway to date ...

Common environmental chemicals could affect birthweight and placental function, according to a study published in ...

The placenta regulates the exchange of nutrients, gases, and metabolic products between a pregnant woman and the foetus, thereby ensuring healthy development. The first 90 days of pregnancy are ...

The placenta plays a central role in fetal development by regulating nutrient transfer, hormonal signaling, and immune interactions, thereby shaping lifelong health outcomes. Evidence from ...

The Yasuhiro Takashima lab shows that naïve iPS cells can be induced to form all the stages that mimic early placenta development in humans. Gynecologist Shingo Io knows that during birth there will ...