Flinders University researchers have uncovered a biological process that could explain some stillbirths and pave the way for ...

Magnus Life Science today announces that the European Medicines Agency (EMA)'s Committee for Orphan Medicinal Products (COMP) has reached a positive decision on recommending orphan designation to ...

Background: Placental insufficiency has been related to changes in fetal hemodynamics, growth restriction, and neonatal mortality and morbidity. Outcome studies among very premature infants born from ...

Yellow coloring in this microscope image is the mark of successful delivery of gene therapy via nanoparticles into placental cells from monkeys (each marked by blue-colored nuclei) and expression of a ...

The life of billions of people inhabiting Earth is owed to a temporary organ that supported and nourished them in a mother’s womb. The placenta, or afterbirth, is considered sacred by some cultures, ...

BALTIMORE ― The risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and especially intellectual disability, increases significantly in infants born of mothers who have any form of hypertension during pregnancy, ...

A new study identified an adenovirus gene therapy vector carrying a VEGF isoform. It can improve uterine blood flow in placental insufficiency, as reported in the peer-reviewed journal Human Gene ...

Placental insufficiency is a rare but grave complication that occurs when the placenta is damaged or doesn’t develop properly. It is otherwise known as placental dysfunction or uteroplacental vascular ...

Significant advances are occurring in placental MRI – particularly the development of texture analysis, machine learning and radiomic approaches – and the time is now ripe for systematic and detailed ...