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Placenta
Placenta: is an organ that develops in your uterus during pregnancy. This structure provides oxygen and nutrients to your growing baby and removes waste products from your baby's blood. The placenta attaches to the wall of your uterus, and your baby's umbilical cord arises from it.
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JAN 16, 2018Neuroscience
During pregnancy, women have to be careful about what kinds of medications they take. While many are safe, some are not ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJAN 08, 2018Immunology
The Zika virus is notorious for its deleterious effects on pregnancy, whether through causing miscarriages or birth defe ...Written By: Kara MarkerDEC 26, 2017Immunology
Immune cells in the uterus that produce important growth-promoting factors could be both the explanation for and the sol ...Written By: Kara MarkerDEC 20, 2017Clinical & Molecular DX
A cheap and commonly used diabetes drug may also treat and prevent preeclampsia. Preeclampsia is a medical condition tha ...NOV 10, 2017Clinical & Molecular DX
Miscarriage is one of the most common complications in early pregnancy, affecting around one in every four pregnancies. ...NOV 03, 2017Cell & Molecular Biology
Smoke from factories, incinerators, and cigarette smoke contains chemicals that can disrupt the crucial early stages of ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 24, 2017Videos
Before the discovery of the human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG) hormone and the invention of the home pregnancy test, ma ...OCT 18, 2017Clinical & Molecular DX
If any new moms out there have reservations about whether or not to consume the placenta after birth, a newly published ...SEP 27, 2017Videos
What cannot kill can still inflict terrible harm - this is what makers of the thalidomide drug found out too late. Thali ...SEP 12, 2017Cardiology
The effects of preeclampsia appear to have an impact only during pregnancy and childbirth, but the condition actually af ...Written By: Kara MarkerAUG 04, 2017Clinical & Molecular DX
There are still aspects of pregnancy and childbirth that continue to baffle the most experienced doctors. The most recen ...JUL 10, 2017Immunology
A malaria drug, called hydroxycholorquine, prevents Zika virus - even when a mother is already infected - from crossing ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUL 05, 2017Clinical & Molecular DX
Placenta eating has become a popular some new moms. But a recent case of bacterial infection in placenta pills has the C ...JUN 27, 2017Cardiology
Pre-eclampsia during pregnancy is rare but dangerous, and for the women and children that survive, a lifelong risk of he ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 20, 2017Cardiology
For the first time, researchers report that a baby’s DNA influences a mother’s risk of pre-eclampsia, a cond ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 14, 2017Immunology
Diagnostic tests for a rare autoimmune disease called anti-phospholipid antibody syndrome (APS) are unreliable, and trea ...Written By: Kara MarkerAPR 21, 2017Cancer
The malaria parasite was the inspiration behind the newest drug for the treatment of bladder cancer. In particular, the ...APR 07, 2017Cell & Molecular Biology
Stem cells have incredible potential; in the pluripotent state, they are able to develop into any type of cell in the bo ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 28, 2017Immunology
Researchers have identified a human antibody that prevents Zika from infecting the fetus and damaging the placenta in pr ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)MAR 09, 2017Microbiology
Researchers have used two types of stem cells and a three dimensional scaffold to generate a structure like a mouse embr ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 06, 2017Microbiology
JUPITER, FL – February 6, 2017 – The most frightening aspect of Zika virus has been its ability to produce s ...Written By: The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)NOV 16, 2016Microbiology
New research done in mice has indicated that the stress of a mother can result in cognitive defects and anxiety in offsp ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 26, 2016Cardiology
You wouldn’t know that a now-healthy three-year-old had prenatal heart surgery after just two months in his mother ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 09, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
Steroids that could help women get pregnant may, ironically, be responsible for miscarriage, preterm birth, and birth de ...
JAN 16, 2018
Neuroscience
During pregnancy, women have to be careful about what kinds of medications they take. While many are safe, some are not
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JAN 08, 2018
Immunology
The Zika virus is notorious for its deleterious effects on pregnancy, whether through causing miscarriages or birth defe
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
DEC 26, 2017
Immunology
Immune cells in the uterus that produce important growth-promoting factors could be both the explanation for and the sol
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
DEC 20, 2017
Clinical & Molecular DX
A cheap and commonly used diabetes drug may also treat and prevent preeclampsia. Preeclampsia is a medical condition tha
...
NOV 10, 2017
Clinical & Molecular DX
Miscarriage is one of the most common complications in early pregnancy, affecting around one in every four pregnancies.
...
NOV 03, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
Smoke from factories, incinerators, and cigarette smoke contains chemicals that can disrupt the crucial early stages of
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 24, 2017
Videos
Before the discovery of the human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG) hormone and the invention of the home pregnancy test, ma
...
OCT 18, 2017
Clinical & Molecular DX
If any new moms out there have reservations about whether or not to consume the placenta after birth, a newly published
...
SEP 27, 2017
Videos
What cannot kill can still inflict terrible harm - this is what makers of the thalidomide drug found out too late. Thali
...
SEP 12, 2017
Cardiology
The effects of preeclampsia appear to have an impact only during pregnancy and childbirth, but the condition actually af
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 04, 2017
Clinical & Molecular DX
There are still aspects of pregnancy and childbirth that continue to baffle the most experienced doctors. The most recen
...
JUL 10, 2017
Immunology
A malaria drug, called hydroxycholorquine, prevents Zika virus - even when a mother is already infected - from crossing
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUL 05, 2017
Clinical & Molecular DX
Placenta eating has become a popular some new moms. But a recent case of bacterial infection in placenta pills has the C
...
JUN 27, 2017
Cardiology
Pre-eclampsia during pregnancy is rare but dangerous, and for the women and children that survive, a lifelong risk of he
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 20, 2017
Cardiology
For the first time, researchers report that a baby’s DNA influences a mother’s risk of pre-eclampsia, a cond
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 14, 2017
Immunology
Diagnostic tests for a rare autoimmune disease called anti-phospholipid antibody syndrome (APS) are unreliable, and trea
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
APR 21, 2017
Cancer
The malaria parasite was the inspiration behind the newest drug for the treatment of bladder cancer. In particular, the
...
APR 07, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
Stem cells have incredible potential; in the pluripotent state, they are able to develop into any type of cell in the bo
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 28, 2017
Immunology
Researchers have identified a human antibody that prevents Zika from infecting the fetus and damaging the placenta in pr
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
MAR 09, 2017
Microbiology
Researchers have used two types of stem cells and a three dimensional scaffold to generate a structure like a mouse embr
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 06, 2017
Microbiology
JUPITER, FL – February 6, 2017 – The most frightening aspect of Zika virus has been its ability to produce s
...
Written By:
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)
NOV 16, 2016
Microbiology
New research done in mice has indicated that the stress of a mother can result in cognitive defects and anxiety in offsp
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 26, 2016
Cardiology
You wouldn’t know that a now-healthy three-year-old had prenatal heart surgery after just two months in his mother
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 09, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Steroids that could help women get pregnant may, ironically, be responsible for miscarriage, preterm birth, and birth de
...