The prenatal environment determines health throughout life. The placenta plays a critical role in supplying the fetus with nutrients and oxygen, and responds to suboptimal prenatal environments to ...

"The placenta functions the same, providing nutrients and oxygen to your baby, no matter where it's located," says Shannon Smith, M.D., an ob-gyn at Brigham Faulkner Ob/Gyn Associates and member ...

Changes in placental function are important because the placenta acts as an intermediate between the maternal environment and the fetus. Past studies had already linked specific genes to psychiatric ...

“We now have the tools,” said Fogarty. Trophoblast stem cells, trophoblast organoids, iPSC-derived trophoblasts, extended embryo culture, CRISPR Cas9-mediated genome editing, advanced imaging ...

A study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, UTHealth ...

can impact placenta development. Mater Research’s Dr Sarah Steane says the recently published study is one of the first to analyse doppler ultrasound measurements of placental function in ...

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Organoids are made to model human organs and are promising for research and therapy, but there are limitations in their growth and function. A recent study found that placenta-derived IL1 under ...