Scientists at Cambridge have unveiled a fascinating mechanism where fetuses use a paternal gene to control the mother's ...

It carries oxygen and nutrients from the mother's blood to the fetus via the umbilical cord. After birth, the placenta naturally detaches and is expelled after the baby is born during vaginal birth or ...

By the end of pregnancy, up to 10% of the DNA in her blood originates from the fetus. While most of these cells fade ...

The conditions can lead to heavy bleeding and sometimes put mother and baby's lives at risk. TV personality Kim Kardashian developed placenta accreta when pregnant with her daughter North West.

Researchers have discovered that the development of blood vessels in the mouse placenta is controlled epigenetically.

If the development of blood vessels in the placenta is impaired, fetal growth retardation may result. Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the Mannheim Medical Faculty of ...

It's a subsequent Rh-positive baby who may be at risk. The mother themselves are in no danger ... in RhoGAM are a type that won't cross the placenta, so never reach the fetus.

The path off Dale Road was cordoned off by police following the find on Wednesday Midwives at a hospital are appealing to the mother of a newborn baby to seek help after a placenta was found nearby.