HONOLULU — The risk for placenta accreta is 3 times higher in pregnancies achieved with in vitro fertilization using frozen embryo transfer than in those using fresh embryos, according to a new study.
MADISON - By successfully inserting a gene from a jellyfish into the fertilized eggs of rhesus monkeys, scientists have managed to make transgenic placentas, placentas where the inserted gene ...
FROM the moment of conception an interplay of biochemical processes ensures the growth and development of the fetus and its placenta. Such an interplay must function under an intricate system of ...
The placenta has long been thought to produce serotonin during pregnancy. But in a new study, Yale researchers shatter the deep-rooted hypothesis—and show that the placenta doesn't produce serotonin ...
I am not the first person who has considered composing poetry to the placenta. One writer begins: “Oh Lady Placenta! What a life you lived in magenta.” Another almost coos to the “constant companion, ...
Pregnancy is a unique situation in which the mother and the hemiallogeneic fetus peacefully coexist. Numerous fetal, maternal and placental mechanisms work in concert to protect the fetus from ...
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The placenta: What it is and how it works
The placenta is a pancake-shaped organ that develops within the wall of your uterus and connects to your baby though the umbilical cord. By the end of pregnancy, it grows to be about 9 inches in ...
Scientists have created a breakthrough polymer chip designed to mimic a human placenta and embryo to stop the 'unethical and cruel' drug testing on more than two million pregnant mice worldwide each ...
The first stages of placental development take place days before the embryo starts to form in human pregnancies. The finding highlights the importance of healthy placental development in pregnancy, ...
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 ...
The fetal gonads develop from proliferating coelomic epithelium as did the fetal adrenal glands (Table 1). Longitudinal ridges, the gonadal ridges, develop on each side of the midline on the medial ...
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