Maternal obesity alters the structure of the placenta (a vital organ that nourishes the baby during pregnancy) more than gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM; a condition is diagnosed by poor glucose ...

This study measured real-life PFAS concentrations in first-trimester human placentas and used these data to create a ...

FROM the moment of conception an interplay of biochemical processes ensures the growth and development of the fetus and its placenta. Such an interplay must function under an intricate system of ...

To help close this knowledge gap, Lewis, along with placenta researcher Michelle Desforges at the University of Manchester, and bioinformatician Michele Darrow at the Rosalind Franklin Institute, ...

If the development of blood vessels in the placenta is impaired, fetal growth retardation may result. Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the Mannheim Medical Faculty of ...

A patchwork of genomic differences in the placenta may explain the organ’s “live fast, die young” strategy and its connections to cancer. In 2008, while the medical resident Sam Behjati was doing his ...

We have all had one, and we owe our lives to it. It’s the first organ to develop and it simultaneously serves as the lungs, kidneys, immune system, and digestive tract, to name a few, in a fetus while ...

Human placental lactogen is a hormone that’s released by the placenta during pregnancy. The placenta is a structure in the uterus that provides nutrients and oxygen to a fetus. As the fetus grows, ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 114, No. 51 (December 19, 2017), pp. 13315-13317 (3 pages) Lavialle C, et al. (2013) Paleovirology of ‘syncytins’, ...

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a group of nearly 10,000 long-lasting chemical compounds that stay in the ...