August 2021

The Maternal Microbiome

Resident bacteria in mom’s gut may shape fetal development

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Features

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Uterus Transplants Hit the Clinic

The Role of Mom’s Microbes During Pregnancy

Reading Frames

Opinion: How Biomedicine Could Transform Human Reproduction

Contributors

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Contributors

Notebook

Study Looks for Effects of Fetal Exposure to Air Pollution

Researchers Head to the Hills to Study Pregnancy

Critic at Large

Opinion: Treating Infertility as a Disease

Careers

Push to Address Long-Standing Challenges for Parents in STEMM

Foundations

Birth of Midwifery, Circa 100 CE

Infographics

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Infographic: Research Questions to Be Tackled by Uterus Transplants

Infographic: Maternal Microbiota Has Lasting Effects on Offspring

Infographic: How Pregnancy Changes Fat Tissue

The Literature

Fat Tissue Reorganizes During Pregnancy

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Exercising During Pregnancy Protects Mouse Offspring

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Gene Offers Clue to How Human Labor Starts

Editorial

A New View of My Own Past

Speaking of Science

Ten Minute Sabbatical

Scientist to Watch

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Darby Saxbe Digs into Relationships’ Effects on Human Biology

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New Frontiers in Vaccine Development

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