The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also leading to the behavioral traits that have made human societies able to thrive ...

Immune activation in a pregnant woman can occur in response to metabolic diseases like obesity, infections in pregnancy, exposure to pollution and environmental toxins, or even stress and can have ...

Until now, scientific evidence has been inconclusive regarding the ability of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, to replicate in the human placenta. Answering this question, as well as ...

In a recent study, researchers uncovered a concerning discovery: microplastics, or tiny particles of plastic waste, were found in every single human placenta tested. This finding emphasizes the ...

Until now, scientific evidence has been inconclusive regarding the ability of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, to replicate in the human placenta. Answering this question, as well as ...

On the Internet, you can find recipes for cooking human placenta and services to have the organ turned into pills. Now, a paper by Buffalo researchers suggests ingesting parts of the afterbirth may ...

Apart from possibly the great apes, no animal has a placenta quite like ours, 1 which makes it difficult to study. But studying the placenta is critical since it plays a role in life-threatening ...

HOUSTON – (Feb. 10, 2025) – Rice University scientists and collaborators at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) have demonstrated a new method for detecting the presence of dangerous chemicals from ...