The placenta is a vital part of a successful pregnancy, providing oxygen and nutrients to a growing fetus while also getting rid of waste products. This temporary organ has long been thought to ...

Research at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California's (USC) Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute shows for the first time that the human placenta plays an active role in ...

The placenta is the nutritive organ for the human fetus. It plays multiple roles in protecting the pregnancy from pathogens, producing the right endocrine milieu, supplying nutrients, and removing ...

I am not the first person who has considered composing poetry to the placenta. One writer begins: “Oh Lady Placenta! What a life you lived in magenta.” Another almost coos to the “constant companion, ...

Dr. Daniel Weinberger, the paper’s senior author and director and CEO of the Lieber Institute for Brain Development, commented, “The secret of the genetics of schizophrenia has been hiding in plain ...

Scientists have shed new light on the role of the placenta in managing the relationships between maternal vitamin D and fetal development, according to a study published today in eLife. The findings ...

A new study, published this week in Science Translation Medicine, tells us more about the role that bacteria may play in the health of a newborn baby. The study found that the placenta, once thought ...

New research shows for the first time that the human placenta plays an active role in synthesizing serotonin, paving the way to new treatment strategies that could mitigate health impacts such as ...

The placenta has 13 different isoforms of the glucocorticoid receptor and one of the isoforms is expressed during maternal stress, anxiety, and depression. This activates an inflammatory response in ...