Can exposure to a common pesticide during pregnancy leave a long–term mark on children's brains? A new study examined the ...

Exposure to glyphosate, the active ingredient in many weed killers, was linked to changes in several hormones that support ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fetus develops a brain and spinal cord early on. Find out how this development occurs and what you can do to support it. Fact ...

Fetal growth restriction may affect babies' heart rate, pain response, brain structure, growth and early development long ...

A new study reveals that air pollution significantly damages the placenta, restricting fetal growth and increasing pregnancy complications like preeclampsia and low birth weight. Researchers from ...

*A new study published in Developmental Science suggests prenatal brain growth may influence early childhood language ...

Rheumatoid arthritis has long been understood as an immune-activated inflammatory disease, however the selective rationale ...

A new study of cadmium in pregnant women yields crucial insights into the placenta's role in regulating toxin exposure. As with many toxins, exposure to the toxic metal cadmium during pregnancy can ...

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers in the United States evaluated the effects of maternal coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic-associated stress and fetal ...

The fetal immune system is highly specialized which is to generate both tolerogenic and protective immune responses to tolerate both self- and maternal-antigens. Fetal T cells with pro-inflammatory ...

To demonstrate sensitivity of diffusion-weighted MRI (DW-MRI) to pulmonary cellular-space changes during normal in utero development using fetal rhesus macaques, compared to histological biomarkers.