The placenta keeps the fetus healthy in the womb and, after birth, can be donated to strangers to offer "miraculous" healing ...

Despite being one of the most important organs, the placenta is one of the least understood ... She hopes that these tools can one day help reveal how defects emerging early in development set the ...

The current theory, according to the researchers, is that the scar is like an "empty road" and the placenta forms and moves into the scar. Kshitiz is skeptical of this standing theory.