Pre-eclampsia, a condition that causes dangerously high blood pressure, is a leading cause of death among mothers and babies.

Scientists have grown 'mini-placentas' in the lab and used them to shed light on how the placenta develops and interacts with the inner lining of the womb -- findings that could help scientists better ...

Researchers at Duke and North Carolina State universities think that previously unknown genes might cause a life-threatening condition for pregnant women and their unborn children. Researchers at Duke ...

A collaboration led by Max Delbrück Center and University of Bath has uncovered how ancient viral DNA controls a gene linked ...

The human genome is riddled with relics of viral infections—bits of DNA from viruses that have been inserted in human DNA over millions of years and never left. Most are silent but some have taken on ...

Preeclampsia is a complex, multisystem disorder associated with pregnancy, characterized primarily by proteinuria and ...

Placental organoid (circle in the center). Trophoblast cells are invading out of the organoid, mimicking placental cells invading the uterus in the early weeks of pregnancy. Credit: Friedrich Miescher ...