Acting as a critical interface between mother and foetus, the placenta regulates nutrient and gas exchange, produces key hormones that sustain gestation, and orchestrates immune tolerance to protect ...

Maternal obesity alters the structure of the placenta (a vital organ that nourishes the baby during pregnancy) more than gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM; a condition is diagnosed by poor glucose ...

A new study shows oxygenation levels in the placenta, formed during the last three months of fetal development, are an important predictor of cortical growth (development of the outermost layer of the ...

PFAS are chemicals that are ubiquitously present in the environment due to their widespread application in various industries and consumer products. Humans are highly exposed to these chemicals ...

The image shows the longitudinal UFF-PAM placenta on day 8, day 10, day 12, and day 15. Blood vessels diameter and density increased by more than 200% over this period. DURHAM, N.C. -- Physicians and ...

Researchers at UAB have identified an immune pathway that might help explain why some women develop a serious pregnancy ...

India, March 11 -- The placenta may hold clues about a child's future health long before birth.

Celularity will present benchtop and clinical case studies suggesting the therapeutic potential of its human placental-derived biomaterials at ICBST23, the International Conference on Biomaterials ...

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have discovered in a preclinical model that cytokines, proteins that control immune response, circulating in maternal blood during pregnancy may mitigate an ...

Climate change increases risks to pregnancy and newborn health through heat, pollution, and environmental stressors that ...

FLORHAM PARK, N.J., July 18, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Celularity Inc. (Nasdaq: CELU) (“Celularity,” “the Company”), a biotechnology company developing placental-derived allogeneic cell therapies and ...