The placenta acts as a life-support system for your growing baby. It decides the nutrients, oxygen, and antibodies a baby should get while restricting harmful substances from passing to the baby.

Excitement and questions double when you're expecting twins. Whether your twins share a placenta or have their own depends on when the fertilised egg splits, and this can significantly impact your ...

A few months into his postdoctoral research at Baylor College of Medicine in 2021, Rafael Michita made a curious observation.