Pregnancy complications such as preeclampsia and preterm birth often arise during the late stage of pregnancy. However, researchers have primarily relied on placental cells from early pregnancy to ...

Eating a placenta may not give you the health benefits some people want you to believe it has, but using it as a bandage might. The placenta is an organ created during pregnancy that provides ...

Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Annually, the United States counts about four million newborns, each accompanied by a placenta, a temporary organ ripe with special ...

Our understanding of human placenta formation just deepened with the discovery of a gene essential to early embryonic development.

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“The device and the media were critical. These embryos are whole embryos — they have [a] yolk sac and placenta. But remarkably, we did not use placenta stem cells and yolk sac stem cells, but showed ...

A gene that turns on very early in embryonic development could be key to the formation of the placenta, which provides the developing fetus with what it needs to thrive during gestation. The placenta ...

Stem cell therapy may help people with circulation problems in their legs. Duke researchers are testing the safety of injecting placental stem cells in patients with peripheral arterial disease, which ...

Pregnancy complications such as preeclampsia and preterm birth often arise during the late stage of pregnancy. However, researchers have primarily relied on placental cells from early pregnancy to ...