More and more women are having babies later in life. A federal report showed that 21% of all births in the U.S. were to women ...

A growing number of women are choosing to have children later in life, which brings unique health considerations. Experts ...

Cedars-Sinai and UCLA investigators have studied first trimester placental tissue and found that for some genes, the process that turns their information into a biological function may depend on the ...

Courtesy Getty Images In some rare cases, chorionic villus sampling can cause the mother to come into contact with the infant's blood, leading to alloimmunization. In pregnancies at risk of developing ...

Angiotensin II (Ang II) and apelin have opposing actions in the regulation of blood pressure, vascular tone and angiogenesis, factors known to be important in pregnancy. Chorionic villi (CV) are ...

What Is Chorionic Villus Sampling (CVS)? A chorionic villus sampling (CVS) prenatal test checks cells from the placenta (which are identical to cells from the fetus) to see if they have a chromosomal ...

aAssisted Reproduction Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310016, China bDepartment of Gynecology, Center for ...

More women are now opting for invasive prenatal testing earlier in their pregnancies to check for possible fetal anomalies in the wake of Tennessee’s strict abortion ban, a new study shows. The study ...

This important study uses single-cell transcriptomics to analyze syncytiotrophoblasts in two trophoblast organoid models compared to primary placental tissue, providing compelling insights into ...