The first stages of placental development take place days before the embryo starts to form in human pregnancies. The finding highlights the importance of healthy placental development in pregnancy, ...

The organ-on-a-chip concept has been around for a while now, providing researchers with working, lab-based models of heart disease, the human gut, and more. Now, researchers from the University of ...

Scientists have derived and grown trophoblast stem cells for the first time, which will lead to better understanding of the human placenta. In a milestone achievement for better understanding the ...

High-resolution imaging of the human placenta provides new insights into blood circulation patterns that are crucial for fetal development, according to a new study. These findings improve our ...

FROM the moment of conception an interplay of biochemical processes ensures the growth and development of the fetus and its placenta. Such an interplay must function under an intricate system of ...

The team used human stem cells to create embryo-like structures dubbed “hematoids” that mirror some features of early human ...

Thymic epithelial cells (TECs) are essential for T cell development but how they develop from progenitors in humans is difficult to study. Here authors set up an in vitro system for thymus ...

University of Cambridge scientists have used human stem cells to create three-dimensional embryo-like structures that ...

Until now, scientific evidence has been inconclusive regarding the ability of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, to replicate in the human placenta. Answering this question, as well as ...

Researchers have found a new way to produce human blood cells in the lab that mimics the process in natural embryos.