The placenta is an amazing structure ... with chorionic villi extending into them. Maternal and fetal cells intermingle in the maternal side of these spaces and the umbilical cord is formed ...

Maternal blood samples were obtained before cesarean section. The umbilical cord was double clamped near the placenta and near ... was not reflected on the fetal side (in neither the umbilical ...

Mariona Bustamante, a molecular epidemiologist at Barcelona Institute for Global Health, and her colleagues found that when pregnant women smoke, the habit impacts the placenta with consequences for ...

Maternal stress could leave epigenetic imprints on genes in the placenta associated with cortisol — a necessary hormone for fetal development — and this would affect the baby's development ...