One popular theory is that the position of your placenta might reveal your baby’s sex. It claims that an anterior placenta (attached to the front of the uterus) means you’re having a girl, while a ...

With the development of the placental tissue (consisting of the decidual cell layer, which is of maternal origin and the remaining placental tissue of fetal origin) throughout gestation ...

Microplastics have been found in human blood, semen, breast milk, placental tissue and bone marrow, but their presence in the ...

A study in Reproductive and Developmental Medicine links elevated levels of the KLF12 protein to impaired placental development, a major cause of unexplained miscarriages affecting 15% of pregnancies.

In the above image of a cross-section of term placenta tissue, STB and CTB are labeled in pink and surround nuclei and nuclear speckles labeled in blue and green, respectively. “Despite it being one ...

The processes involved in placental development are highly regulated to ensure normal growth of the developing fetal tissues and the maintenance of a healthy pregnancy. A unique function of the ...