Can the placenta predict lifelong health? Research shows that placental function may influence future disease risk.

A balanced maternal diet throughout gestation is essential for optimal fetal development in beef cattle. Nutritional inputs not only determine immediate outcomes such as fetal weight and organ ...

A chronological map of the fetal brain reveals when key cells emerge and provides clues about autism and cancer.

The human brain, like the brain of other mammals, is known to start developing before birth, via a coordinated sequence of molecular and cellular processes. Neuroscience studies have found that the ...

Diagnostic imaging and genetic screens help clinicians catch congenital fetal diseases in utero, but models for studying organ development and disease progression are limited. Over the last decade, ...

New research traces plastics from food to placentas to fetal organs. Nanoscale plastic particles like those that permeate most food and water pass from pregnant rats to their unborn children and may ...