Researchers have developed a 'placenta-on-a-chip' to study the inner workings of the human placenta and its role in pregnancy. The device was designed to imitate, on a micro-level, the structure and ...

Scientists are uncovering how the placenta, long viewed as a temporary pregnancy organ, acts as a powerful biological predictor of lifelong health, linking prenatal environments to future risks of ...

Modern medicine has begun to recognize that the placenta can have significant medical and scientific value even after childbirth.

The placenta never fails to amaze. The conventions that we take for granted as required for the normal formation and function of other organs are often flouted by placental trophoblasts, the ...

National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers and their colleagues have developed a "placenta-on-a-chip" to study the inner workings of the human placenta and its role in pregnancy. The device was ...

National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers want to study the biology of human placenta to better understand its role in pregnancy. In order to study the biology of the placenta, researchers ...

Expert Rev Clin Immunol. 2013;9(3):235-249. There are strong inherent difficulties associated with research on human pregnancy, including the associated ethical problems providing complications in ...