A case study finds SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in placental cord blood after maternal vaccination.

Transcripts circulating in the blood provide real-time information about maternal, fetal, and placental health.

Researchers find connective tissue has a crucial role to play in whether cancer cells metastasize.

Trophoblasts, collected from the mother during a blood draw, can determine fetal genetic abnormalities currently diagnosed through amniocentesis or chorionic villi sampling.

The authors of a new study find no evidence for bacteria in the placenta, but others in the field question their interpretation of the data.

He established the San Diego Zoo’s cryopreserved Frozen Zoo.

Complications during pregnancy may act via the placenta to magnify the effects of genetic risk factors.

A small, placenta-produced peptide fixes the pregnancy-related condition in mice. 

Placentas from mice with genetically distinct immune systems, stained to highlight differences in three proteins, representing the nucleus (blue), blood vessels (red), and trophoblasts (green)