Scientists have used a spectroscopy technique to identify and characterize microplastics in the human placenta. The study published in the journal Science of The Total Environment provides a detailed ...

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Flinders University researchers have uncovered a biological process that could explain some stillbirths and pave the way for ...

Researchers found microplastics in every single placenta tested during a study. The adverse health impacts of nano- and microplastics is not fully known, but research is emerging that shows the damage ...

Our understanding of human placenta formation just deepened with the discovery of a gene essential to early embryonic ...

A study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, UTHealth Houston and collaborating institutions reveals that maternal COVID-19 ...

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Until now, scientific evidence has been inconclusive regarding the ability of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, to replicate in the human placenta. Answering this question, as well as ...

A gene that turns on very early in embryonic development could be key to the formation of the placenta, which provides the developing fetus with what it needs to thrive during gestation. The placenta ...

Fetus, Between the 8th week of pregnancy and birth, the human being developing in the uterus is called a fetus. It undergoes significant growth, especially during the second trimester, growing from 3 ...