Your placenta is much more than a temporary organ during pregnancy. It acts as a lung and stomach for the developing baby. The placenta, which supplies oxygen and nutrients and filters waste products, ...

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

The protein, TgAP2X-7, appears to be essential to the parasite's ability to invade a host, form plaques, and self-replicate.

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U.K.-based Wellcome has awarded over €2 million to an international research effort to uncover how malaria can injure developing babies. Emanuel Wyler at the Max Delbrück Center will play a key role ...

Pre-eclampsia is one of the most serious complications in pregnancy, affecting millions of women and newborns worldwide.

In pregnant women with sickle cell disease, the risk of developing early-onset preeclampsia can be determined by measuring ...

Scientists are using AI to better predict embryo health in real time.

Kennedy, Jr. has again asserted an unproven connection between Tylenol and autism, suggesting that critics of this theory are driven by hatred towards President Donald Trump. During a Cabinet meeting ...

Researchers from the University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Finland, and Örebro University, Sweden, have ...

Circumcision is the latest example of Kennedy seizing on a hot-button issue that already has entrenched and aggressive ...

Maternal stress, encompassing physical, emotional, and psychological distress, remains a widespread yet underestimated risk ...