All mammals, including humans, go through a period of gestation that lasts from conception to birth. During this time, your body goes through many changes and may be more susceptible to developing ...
University of Cambridge scientists say they have identified a key pathway that controls the expansion of the placental vascular tree in late gestation, demonstrating that fetus-derived signals are ...
About four or five months after conception, a burst of synaptic growth begins in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) of the human fetus. And within this tangled mass of connections, the developing brain ...