Maternal-fetal fluid balance is critical during pregnancy, and amniotic fluid is essential for fetal growth and development. The placenta plays a key role in a successful pregnancy as the interface ...

By recreating a fetal liver niche, FLOs show how liver and immune cells co-develop. Learn more about new groundbreaking ...

Significant differences in the gene activity of the fetal intestine, brain and placenta were identified, depending on the microbes in the mother's body and the compounds produced by them. The findings ...

The brains of humans increased dramatically after the emergence of the genus Homo. Indeed, the size of the cerebrum, in particular, is much larger in humans than in other primate species. A research ...

1 Department of Fetology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China 2 McKusick-Zhang Center for Genetic Medicine, State Key Laboratory for Complex Severe and Rare Diseases, ...

Introduction: Gyrification is the intricate process through which the mammalian cerebral cortex develops its characteristic pattern of sulci and gyri. Monitoring gyrification provides valuable ...

Tennessee could soon become the latest state to require public school students to watch a three-minute computer-generated video on fetal development created by an anti-abortion group. The state Senate ...