One popular theory is that the position of your placenta might reveal your baby’s sex. It claims that an anterior placenta (attached to the front of the uterus) means you’re having a girl, while a ...

The long-standing question of how animals came to have an anus may have been solved by studies of which genes are active ...

One of the main arguments made for bodyoids is that they could provide spare human organs. There’s a huge shortage of organs ...

Microplastics —tiny plastic bits that can take hundreds of years to break down—are everywhere, from tap water to tea bags, ...

According to a new pilot study that found chewing just one piece can release hundreds to thousands of microplastics into ...

A growing body of work suggests that cell metabolism — the chemical reactions that provide energy and building materials — ...

Endochondral ossification is hard to recapitulate with human cells. Here ... Here, authors report that treatment with IL1α, a placenta-derived factor, under hypoxia induces progenitor expansion ...

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Study shows maternal immune activation alters hippocampal neuron excitability in newborn rats, with implications for autism, schizophrenia, and depression.

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Florida have discovered a treatment for placentas ...

A new Weill Cornell Medicine and Oregon Health & Science University co-authored study provides critical insight for the development of a vaccine that can more effectively block the spread of ...

In truth, biological sex, like a lot of scientific categories, is nuanced. It's defined by multiple criteria – including chromosomal, chemical and physical factors – that can, and do, change over a ...