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

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 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 development of a child begins during pregnancy, when prenatal environmental factors and genetic influences interact to shape fetal development and long-term health outcomes. Increasing evidence ...

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: ...

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 ...