When you are going through Polycystic Ovarian Disease (PCOD) and expecting a pregnancy, which you know can bring both excitement and anxiety. One very unpopular yet crucial topic is to understand how ...

Find out when the placenta forms, and how the placenta supports your baby during your pregnancy.

Researchers lead a study showing the cellular detail of how the placenta changes during pregnancy. Early in pregnancy, something strange happens in the uterus: Cells from the fetal side of the ...

New guidance is being issued to doctors and other healthcare professionals about complications of the placenta in expectant mothers, including about a condition which affected reality star Kim ...

Placental organoid (circle in the centre). Trophoblast cells are invading out of the organoid, mimicking placental cells invading the uterus in the early weeks of pregnancy. Scientists have grown ...

A new study led by Pr. Serge McGraw, researcher at CHU Sainte-Justine and professor at Université de Montréal, shows that the effects of alcohol exposure on an embryo prior to implantation in the ...

A new study shows oxygenation levels in the placenta, formed during the last three months of fetal development, are an important predictor of cortical growth (development of the outermost layer of the ...