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Using Artificial Intelligence to Analyze Placentas

November 25, 2019

Computerized image analysis could lessen barriers to placental analysis and improve health outcomes for mother and child...

CBD, THC Use during Early Pregnancy Can Disrupt Fetal Development

November 5, 2019

UNC School of Medicine researchers are the first to show in animal models that components of marijuana, including its cannabi...

Even the Fetus Has Gut Bacteria, Study Shows

October 24, 2019

Findings point to potential to improve preemie growth and immune system during high risk pregnancy

Stem Cell Study Offers New Way to Study Early Development and Pregnancy

October 22, 2019

Salk mouse synthetic embryo model could open new avenues for understanding early development, among many other applications f...

Researchers Discover Potential Therapy to Treat Detrimental Effects of Marijuana in Pre-Adolescent Individuals Exposed to THC in Womb

October 16, 2019

University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers elucidate pathway that causes psychological effects like increased impu...

Endangered Black Rhino Expecting First Calf

October 14, 2019

Doppsee, the first-time expectant rhino mother, is due in late December or early January 2020 after her 15-month pregnancy...

FUJIFILM Irvine Scientific Introduces Vit Kit-NX, the Next Generation of Vitrification Media Solutions

September 24, 2019

The advanced formulas, which now include trehalose, are designed to vitrify and warm oocytes and embryos in a consistent, sta...

Successful Egg Harvest Breaks New Ground in Saving the Northern White Rhinoceros

August 29, 2019

An international consortium of scientists and conservationists just completed a procedure that could enable assisted reproduc...

High Fat Diet during Pregnancy Slows Learning in Offspring, Rat Study Suggests

August 27, 2019

Although the study was performed on animals, the researchers say their findings likely apply in some measure to other mammals...

Primate Study Finds New Evidence that Growth Factor Plays Key Role in Maintaining Healthy Pregnancy

June 21, 2019

University of Maryland School of Medicine study sheds new insight into causes and potential treatment for placental disorders...

Artificial Womb Technology Breaks Its 4 Minute Mile

March 27, 2019

The study presents world-first data demonstrating the ability of an artificial placenta-based life support platform to mainta...

Pollutants, Pathogens Could Team up to Make Us Sick

March 21, 2019

Environmental pollutants appear to weaken the immune system, reduce vaccine efficacy, and increase pathogen virulence

Study Offers Clues for Why Birth Control May Fail

March 14, 2019

A genetic component in some women breaks down contraceptive hormones

First Semi-Identical Twins Identified in Pregnancy

March 1, 2019

If one egg is fertilized by two sperm it results in three sets of chromosomes, one from the mother and two from the father...

Recurrent Miscarriage Linked to Faulty Sperm

January 4, 2019

The study team hope these findings may open new avenues to finding treatments to reduce the risk of miscarriage

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