Learn how placental malperfusion affects outcomes in Congenital Heart Disease and what genetic links reveal - keep reading to ...

During the first weeks of pregnancy, the developing placenta in a mother's womb undergoes a dramatic change. Individual cells merge ...

Without the protein galectin-3 (left), placental cells remain separate, each with their own nucleus (blue) surrounded by a ...

Elevated levels of type I interferon (IFN) during pregnancy are associated with intrauterine growth retardation, preterm birth, and fetal demise through mechanisms that are not well understood. A ...

The placenta has long been thought to produce serotonin during pregnancy. But in a new study, Yale researchers shatter the deep-rooted hypothesis — and show that the placenta doesn’t produce serotonin ...

Apart from possibly the great apes, no animal has a placenta quite like ours, 1 which makes it difficult to study. But studying the placenta is critical since it plays a role in life-threatening ...

Researchers lead a study showing the cellular detail of how the placenta changes during pregnancy. Early in pregnancy, something strange happens in the uterus: Cells from the fetal side of the ...

As many as one in 10 pregnant women develop preeclampsia, a condition that can result in dangerously high blood pressure and other serious, potentially deadly complications for mother and child. Now, ...

Pregnancy-related hypertensive disorders, most notably pre‐eclampsia, represent a complex spectrum of conditions that can lead to significant maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. These ...

The human genome is riddled with relics of viral infections—bits of DNA from viruses that have been inserted in human DNA over millions of years and never left. Most are silent but some have taken on ...