A small study based on circulating RNA in the blood of moms-to-be describes a technique that could be used to help predict who’s most at risk of preterm labor.

The incubator exhibitions of the late 19th and early 20th centuries publicized the care of premature babies.

A handful of infants in a neonatal intensive care unit who were diagnosed with rare diseases using whole-genome sequencing had shorter hospital stays and better health outcomes, researchers find.

Researchers suggest that the receptors can control early labor contractions.

A new study uses blood samples from pregnant women to track changes in the immune system leading up to birth, and predicts gestational age from the mothers’ immune signatures.

The lungs of extremely premature lambs supported in a closed, sterile environment that enables fluid-based gas exchange grow and develop normally, researchers report.

Medication to prevent prematurity in humans harms cognitive flexibility in rats.

The pace at which bacterial groups take root in the gastrointestinal tracts of premature infants is more tied to developmental age than time since birth.

Two organizations team up in an effort to predict risk of premature birth using big data and genomics.

Babies conceived in May have an elevated risk of being born early.

US watchdog suspends plans to discipline researchers who failed to disclose the full risks of an experimental trial conducted with premature infants.

Researchers are using modern experimental tools to probe the mysterious molecular pathways that lead to premature labor and birth.

Researchers are piecing together the chain of events that leads to preterm and full-term birth.

NIH researcher Roberto Romero describes the recent discovery of genetic elemetns that contribute to the risk of preterm birth.

Premature infants show brain activity patterns in response to language similar to those of adults.