A research team showed that, contrary to current models, one early embryonic cell dominates lineages that will become the fetus. “They are not identical,” said Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, a ...

A new study maps how prenatal stress alters immune signalling in the developing brain at a level of detail not seen before ...

The development of a child begins during pregnancy, when prenatal environmental factors and genetic influences interact to ...

In a recent study published in the journal Science Immunology, researchers profile the origins and subsequent differentiation of embryonic and fetal immune cells during human lung development. Study: ...

A controversial bill on its way to Gov. Mike Braun’s desk would require Hoosier students in sex education classes to view video of an ultrasound and computer renderings of the stages of fetal ...

A new study shows oxygenation levels in the placenta, formed during the last three months of fetal development, are an important predictor of cortical growth (development of the outermost layer of the ...

Brain development, especially before birth, is crucial to one’s mental health later in life. We know from previous research that disturbed development in the womb is linked to disorders such as autism ...

One month after the Alabama Supreme Court declared that frozen embryos are legally considered children – and two weeks after the state’s Legislature undid the major impacts of that decision by ...