One popular theory is that the position of your placenta might reveal your baby’s sex. It claims that an anterior placenta (attached to the front of the uterus) means you’re having a girl, while a ...

Down syndrome is a common chromosomal disorder caused by an extra chromosome 21, leading to intellectual disabilities and ...

The chorion lies closest to the placenta. The chorionic sac encompasses the fetus and the amnion and is covered with chorionic villi until the 8th week. After the 8th week, these villi are ...

“She was telling me that the placenta – which gives nutrients to the baby, it is like core to growing a baby – is 98% the man,” said the model in disbelief. “I’ve asked a few men and ...

However, much less is known about the immunological response occurring within the villous placenta. Using a rhesus macaque model of lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced IA inflammation, we showed that ...

This valuable study investigates the immune system's role in pre-eclampsia. The authors map the immune cell landscape of the human placenta and find an increase in macrophages and Th17 cells in ...

In singleton pregnancies in developed countries, IUGR is usually the result of a deficit in placental transfer capacity due to placental dysfunction or maternal disease. These pathologies are not ...

Medically reviewed by Kumkum S. Patel, MD Intestinal villi (singular: villus)are tiny, finger-like projections that line the ...

Liu et al. presented the findings of their investigation into the spatial transcriptome of first trimester human placental villi (Figure 1D, E). They employed a modified spatial transcriptomics ...