One often thinks that the early embryo is fragile and needs support. However, at the earliest stages of development, it has the power to feed the future placenta and instructs the uterus so that it ...

It's been almost 30 years since Dolly the sheep made headlines as the world's first mammal to be cloned from another animal's body cell. Now, a team of scientists in China has unveiled a rhesus monkey ...

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 from very ...

A new study shows oxygenation levels in the placenta, formed during the last three months of fetal development, are an important predictor of cortical growth (development of the outermost layer of the ...

AS WE emerged into the world as newborns, each of us lost something important: a body part that had provided us with oxygen and nutrients, removed waste products and kept pathogens at bay. What became ...

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 ...

The placenta could be one reason why some women develop gestational diabetes during pregnancy, a new study finds. A deficit in the way the placenta expresses the gene for a hormone called insulin-like ...

Approximately one in six couples trying to have a child experiences infertility. Each year, over five percent of children in Finland are born with the help of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART), ...

Police have issued a major update after a human placenta was discovered in a park in Greater Manchester. The grim sighting sparked a wide-spread search to locate a mother and baby after the discovery ...

For the first time, placental genes were studied to explore how Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) affects a child’s development. Differences showed up between pregnancies from frozen and fresh ...