Researchers found microplastics in every single placenta tested during a study. The adverse health impacts of nano- and microplastics is not fully known, but research is emerging that shows the damage ...

Scientists have used a spectroscopy technique to identify and characterize microplastics in the human placenta. The study published in the journal Science of The Total Environment provides a detailed ...

High-resolution imaging of the human placenta provides new insights into blood circulation patterns that are crucial for fetal development, according to a new study. These findings improve our ...

A study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, UTHealth Houston and collaborating institutions reveals that maternal COVID-19 ...

Until now, scientific evidence has been inconclusive regarding the ability of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, to replicate in the human placenta. Answering this question, as well as ...

The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also leading to the behavioral traits that have made human societies able to thrive ...

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 ...

Human placental lactogen is a hormone that’s released by the placenta during pregnancy. The placenta is a structure in the uterus that provides nutrients and oxygen to a fetus. As the fetus grows, ...

Is the placenta home to communities of bacteria? Recent evidence that the organ has its own microbiome promised to rewrite our understanding of it, but now research suggests that the earlier ...

Fetus, Between the 8th week of pregnancy and birth, the human being developing in the uterus is called a fetus. It undergoes significant growth, especially during the second trimester, growing from 3 ...