Placenta accreta spectrum (PAS) used to be a rare pregnancy condition, but it now affects roughly 14,000 pregnancies annually ...

Disorganized collagen in old C-section scars causes abnormal placental attachment in uterus in future pregnancies, not ...

One of the weirdest things about placentas, if you have to choose just one, is how very little we know about them. For an organ that is so essential to human life—it is the dark, pancake-shaped blob ...

Like comments on post-it labels in a cookbook, cells add more information to their genetic material by directing enzymes to attach small hydrocarbon molecules to the DNA (DNA methylation). This ...

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 ...

Researchers found that placentas in stillbirth cases show signs of accelerated biological aging driven by circular RNAs.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When you were a child, it seemed like an ingenious plan: Splash hot water on your face and stagger into the kitchen, letting out a moan ...

I had not given much thought to placentas until the one inside me refused to come out. I’d never thought of the placenta as an object that had agency, let alone its own personality. But there I was, ...

Nadia Chanzu-Ikumi is an AXA Research Fund fellow. In many parts of the world, the human placenta (the after birth) is discarded once a baby is born and considered waste. The focus is on the child and ...