To work toward earlier detection, Nadkarni studies the placenta. The organ grows in a gestating mammal’s uterus to nourish a fetus—but can do that properly only if the immune system is working.

In order to gain a better understanding of how such malformations can arise, Augustin and his team have now examined the blood vessels of the mouse placenta at the single-cell level. The ...

1 That was until a few years ago, when researchers generated mouse pups using genetic material from two same ... Although this strategy successfully generated embryos, they failed to develop a ...

Researchers demonstrate regenerative capability of placental Cdx2 cells in mouse model of heart attack. Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (NY, USA) have recently ...