Engineers have used microfluidic technology to create a “placenta-on-a-chip” that models how compounds can be passed from a mother to
Category: Fetus
PFAS chemicals pass from mother to fetus throughout pregnancy
In a study published in Environment International researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden show how PFAS industrial chemicals, which are used in
Diabetes drug increases the weight of fetus
When pregnant women take the common diabetes medication metformin throughout pregnancy, it can positioned their kids at increased hazard of
Links between fetal movements and musculoskeletal malformation
A team of researchers with Imperial College London and Great Ormond Street Hospital, both in the U.K., has found that
Effects of maternal stress on fetus
Maternal stress during the second trimester of pregnancy may influence the nervous system of the developing child, both before and
DNA antenatal screening for Down’s syndrome
Scientist have demonstrated that it is possible to incorporate DNA analysis into antenatal screening for three serious chromosome disorders, including
Infertility increases the risk of untimely death
According to a new study, infertility increases a woman’s chance of untimely death compared to women who have had children.
Effects of father’s diet on fetus
Father’s diet before conception can impact newborn’s health, low carbohydrate and high protein diet can make the fetus healthy. Experiments
Folic acid may reduce autism risk from pesticide
Taking folic acid during the window around conception reduced the risk associated with pesticides, researchers examined many children who had
Using antidepressants in pregnancy may affects fetus mental development
Latest research shows that there is an increased risk involved in using antidepressants during pregnancy, children born to mothers who
