A healthy placenta attaches to the wall of the uterus, often to the top, side, front or back ... placenta disc like the limbs of a tree. The amnion is the innermost layer of the placenta that ...

He had two emergency corneal transplants and three amnion grafts, where tissue from the inner lining of a donated placenta was used to save his eye. Mr Laskey, from Newcastle, said: "I'm so ...