Organoids are made to model human organs and are promising for research and therapy, but there are limitations to their ...

there is a slightly higher risk of intrauterine growth restriction for one or both babies. If an ultrasound exam suggests you have a velamentous cord insertion, you may have ultrasounds more often to ...

“The placenta has been difficult to capture in the dish,” said ... The other half are affected by miscarriage, intrauterine growth restriction, fetal growth restriction, and preeclampsia. “If we can ...

In people not adapted to life at altitude, the sparse oxygen can impair fetal growth, causing issues that can last a lifetime ...

Placental growth hormone (PGH) is synthesized in and secreted from the human placental syncytiotrophoblast (1) into the maternal circulation in a nonpulsatile manner, detectable in the maternal ...

Maternal smoking during pregnancy associated with methylation signatures across the placental epigenome in genes involved in regulating inflammation, growth signaling, and cardiometabolic outcomes.