Your placenta is the lifeline between you and your baby while it's growing inside you. Once it's served that purpose, it's usually discarded. But you can choose to do any number of things with it ...

Despite mounting evidence, the full extent of microplastics' impact on human health remains unclear, prompting urgent calls ...

The placenta, an organ that forms during pregnancy, is a key organ in a fetus’s development. It provides nutrients and antibodies to a developing fetus. After birth, the placenta typically has no ...

Writing in the journal, the scientists, from Hasselt University, in Belgium, led by Prof Tim Narwot, said: "Our results demonstrate that the human placental barrier is not impenetrable for particles.

A new study led by Serge McGraw, researcher at CHU Sainte-Justine and professor in the Department of Obstetrics and ...

A path off Dale Road was cordoned off by police after the discovery Police investigating the discovery of a human placenta have said they are now considering the "possibility that a criminal ...

Professor Vicki Clifton, a leading maternal health researcher at Mater Research Institute-University of Queensland, unveils ...

More information: Tania L. Gonzalez et al, Sexually dimorphic DNA methylation and gene expression patterns in human first trimester placenta, Biology of Sex Differences (2024). DOI: 10.1186 ...

Antibiotics (germ-killing medicine) may have little to no effect on infection of the lining of the uterus after a retained placenta is manually removed, but the evidence is very uncertain.