Once you learn you're pregnant, it's common to start envisioning what your baby might look like, how they might act, and of course, their gender. If you find yourself daydreaming about what kind of ...

Diagnostic imaging and genetic screens help clinicians catch congenital fetal diseases in utero, but models for studying organ development and disease progression are limited. Over the last decade, ...

On the outside, you’ll watch your little one grow from newborn to older infant to toddler, preschooler, kindergartener, and so on. It might feel like it goes by in the blink of an eye. But a little ...

The placenta is a dynamic endocrine organ that orchestrates both maternal adaptation and fetal growth through the coordinated secretion of peptide and steroid hormones. Key placental hormones include ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. When Mana Parast was a medical resident in 2003, she had an experience that would change the course of her entire career: her first fetal autopsy. The ...

This is the longest-lived set of developing kidney organoids derived from tissue stem cells The kidney developed over a half a year, enabling real-time observation, gene isolation for birth defects ...