A new study of cadmium in pregnant women yields crucial insights into the placenta's role in regulating toxin exposure. As with many toxins, exposure to the toxic metal cadmium during pregnancy can ...

A team of more than 200 researchers around the world, involving multiple health and scientific institutions, led by the University of Oxford, has published the first digital atlas showing the dynamics ...

A father's nutrition before conception may influence fetal growth and placenta development. Expert explains how diet can ...

A growing body of experimental research in mice, combined with early human cohort data, points to a striking possibility: the ...

A new study reveals that air pollution significantly damages the placenta, restricting fetal growth and increasing pregnancy ...

Brain development, especially before birth, is crucial to one’s mental health later in life. We know from previous research that disturbed development in the womb is linked to disorders such as autism ...

To treat large gaps in long bones, like the femur, which result from bone tumor removal or a shattering trauma, researchers at Penn Medicine and the University of Illinois at Chicago developed a ...