'Forever chemicals' already have a shocking reputation, and now new research has linked these substances – named for the way they stick around in the environment for so long – to brain changes in ...

For the first time, scientists have developed a laboratory-grown version of the adrenal cortex — the outer part of the ...

A new study has shown the ovary’s tissues and cells play a bigger role than previously thought in how fertility wanes.

Before cells can divide, they first need to replicate all of their chromosomes, so that each of the daughter cells can ...

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

If you've been told that you have an anterior placenta, you might be wondering what its location means for your pregnancy.

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

An international team of scientists has unveiled the most comprehensive model yet that explains how cells control the flow of ...

A growing program at Mercy Hospital St. Louis is turning what was once discarded after childbirth into a powerful gift.

The institute has built more than 20 types of organs-on-chips, or miniature models of human organs lined with living cells, ...