The placenta plays a central role in fetal development by regulating nutrient transfer, hormonal signaling, and immune interactions, thereby shaping lifelong health outcomes. Evidence from ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. When Mana Parast was a medical resident in 2003, she had an experience that would change the course of her entire career: her first fetal autopsy. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

When a scar develops from surgery, injury, or infection, the surrounding tissue transforms. While scar formation has been extensively studied, less is understood about the impact of a new scar in the ...

For many years, the placenta had been considered nothing more than clinical waste, a temporary organ that had served its sole purpose of sustaining a foetus, and was then disposed of. However, the ...