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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
It turns out that a gene called LTR5Hs activates a gene that affects the growth of an embryo and the proliferation of stem ...
Researchers at the University of Cambridge have successfully developed a stem cell-based model capable of producing human ...
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 ...