A balanced maternal diet throughout gestation is essential for optimal fetal development in beef cattle. Nutritional inputs not only determine immediate outcomes such as fetal weight and organ ...

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 ...

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 ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) said that it will stop funding all research that uses human fetal tissue, ending ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - Iowa schools would have to show ultrasound videos and computer-generated graphics on fetal development in Iowa classrooms under legislation sent to 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 ...

This is the longest-lived set of developing kidney organoids derived from tissue stem cells The kidney developed over a half a year, enabling real-time observation, gene isolation for birth defects ...