Physicians and biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a method to visualize the growth of a placenta throughout a mouse's pregnancy. By coupling an implantable window with ultrafast ...

The placenta, critical for healthy embryo development, is a multi- purpose organ with a precise lifespan—the length of a pregnancy. New research from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research ...

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 ...

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 image shows the longitudinal UFF-PAM placenta on day 8, day 10, day 12, and day 15. Blood vessels diameter and density increased by more than 200% over this period. DURHAM, N.C. -- Physicians and ...

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 human placenta is a transient organ that mediates nutrient and gas exchange between maternal and foetal circulations. Its development involves the differentiation of trophoblast populations, ...

More than 100 genes linked to the risk of schizophrenia seem to cause illness because of their role in the placenta rather than in the developing brain, according to a new study led by the Lieber ...

Newly reported research in mice is the first to provide direct evidence that loss of a placental hormone can alter long-term brain development in offspring. The study, headed by researchers in the ...

During pregnancy, the placenta secretes hormones that increase insulin resistance, which may cause gestational diabetes (GD). Left untreated, diabetes can damage the placenta. GD begins in the ...

The placenta could be one reason why some women develop gestational diabetes during pregnancy, a new study finds. A deficit in the way the placenta expresses the gene for a hormone called insulin-like ...