Air pollution can penetrate a pregnant woman's placenta and potentially threaten the health of a developing foetus, new research warns. The study is "the first to show that air pollution particles can ...

IT can be concluded from animal data that the human foetus synthesizes lipids, chiefly from carbohydrates 1–3. We have measured the synthesis of fatty acids and sterols from acetate and citrate in ...

Professor of Evolutionary Ecology; Director, Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, UNSW Sydney The poor old placenta. It really doesn’t get much public attention. And yet it does a crucially important ...

In prenatal ultrasounds or at delivery, many new parents look between their baby’s legs: the presence of a penis is taken as a strong sign that it’s a boy. For humans and other animals, development of ...

Astrud Tuck receives funding from the Channel 7 Children's Research Foundation. An incredibly complex and important organ in its own right, the placenta is only found in mammals. And how it functions ...

In this Bihar news, a foetus was found to be developing within the stomach of a 40-day-old newborn, which is an uncommon medical oddity. A 40-day-old newborn was recently brought to Motihari's ...

A foetus was found inside the stomach of a 40-day-old baby in Motihari, Bihar, and it is an extremely odd medical discovery. Recently, a 40-day-old infant was brought to Motihari's Rahmania Medical ...

Those who would defend the rights of women to decide for themselves whether to terminate a pregnancy should also engage with the argument that the developing foetus is equivalent to a person who also ...

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