WASHINGTON (AP) - Researchers have created a cellular model of the human placenta to help uncover how infections, from toxoplasmosis to the Zika virus, may pass from a mother to her unborn child. The ...

A team of researchers in the United States and the United Kingdom says they have created the world’s first synthetic human embryo-like structures from stem cells, bypassing the need for eggs and sperm ...

The findings raise concerns about risks to fetal development, as studies emerge linking nanoplastics to heart disease and death Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously ...

Researchers reported finding microplastics in all 62 of the placenta samples tested, with concentrations ranging from 6.5 to 790 micrograms per gram of tissue. A flurry of recent studies has found ...

Scientists say they could one day help advance the understanding of genetic diseases or the causes of miscarriages Scientists say they could one day help advance the understanding of genetic diseases ...