The placenta is a unique organ that exists only during pregnancy, growing at tumour-like speed to the size of a small dinner ...

Scientists at the University of Technology Sydney 3D bioprinted placental organoids to study the placenta in eary pregnancy.

Lab-made organoids that mimic reproductive tissues could point to treatments for common conditions such as pre-eclampsia and ...

Placental organoids’ may help research into the early stages of pregnancy and life-threatening conditions like preeclampsia.

Pregnancy complications such as preeclampsia and preterm birth often arise during the late stage of pregnancy. However, researchers have primarily relied on placental cells from early pregnancy to ...

A new study shows that severe flu infections in pregnant mice compromise both placental and brain barriers, allowing large ...

We have all had one, and we owe our lives to it. It’s the first organ to develop and it simultaneously serves as the lungs, kidneys, immune system, and digestive tract, to name a few, in a fetus while ...

A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign shows, for the first time, that severe flu infection in pregnant ...

A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign shows, for the first time, that severe flu infection in pregnant ...

“How do you know whether a mother will deliver preterm or not? Well, the short answer is, we don't know,” said Nardhy Gomez-Lopez, an immunologist who studies obstetrics and gynecology at Washington ...