Prenatal development unfolds in three major stages: germinal, embryonic, and fetal. Each stage involves significant growth and transformation, laying the groundwork for vital organs and systems that ...

Deep inside the developing human body, an ancient cellular recycling system appears to be hard at work long before a baby ...

Fetal development is complex, and genetic factors can be an important part of the picture. This is where advances in prenatal genomic testing are helping doctors understand some fetal abnormalities in ...

In a recent review published in Experimental Neurology, researchers presented the effects of simultaneous alcohol and cannabinoid (SAC) usage during gestation on fetal brain development. In rats and ...

A new study of cadmium in pregnant women yields crucial insights into the placenta's role in regulating toxin exposure. As with many toxins, exposure to the toxic metal cadmium during pregnancy can ...

A new study shows oxygenation levels in the placenta, formed during the last three months of fetal development, are an important predictor of cortical growth (development of the outermost layer of the ...

Many factors, including genetics, stress, and environmental exposure, can shape pregnancy and fetal development. Physicians who care for pregnant patients and their babies before and after birth work ...

In a separate study, researchers followed 1,210 girls who were exposed in utero from infancy through adolescence ...

A single pollutant, swallowed by a pregnant mother in doses that would not raise eyebrows at a seafood counter, may be enough to bend the arc of her children’s development in profoundly different d ...

An Ecuadorian pregnancy nutrition program based on ancestral dietary principles improved the nutritional quality of pregnant women’s diets and increa | Neuroscience And Nervous System ...