A fetal development video created by an anti-abortion group may become a required watch in Utah schools with a bill advancing ...

COLUMBUS – A new bill in the General Assembly would require public schools to show a video of fetal development to students from the 3rd grade through 12th grade, joining a growing number of states ...

SB 442 is meant to increase transparency around human sexuality instruction in schools. House lawmakers broadened a measure meant to increase transparency about human sexuality instruction in schools.

DES MOINES, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - Iowa schools would have to show ultrasound videos and computer-generated graphics on fetal development in Iowa classrooms under legislation sent to the ...

Can the placenta predict lifelong health? Research shows that placental function may influence future disease risk.

The human brain, like the brain of other mammals, is known to start developing before birth, via a coordinated sequence of molecular and cellular processes. Neuroscience studies have found that the ...

Every face is unique. Genetics helps to determine our features, but sometimes genes have errors, which, in early fetal development, can result in babies with facial differences such as a cleft lip or ...

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 ...

Researchers at Texas A&M University have already shown that paternal drinking habits prior to conception can have a negative effect on fetal development - with semen from men who regularly consume ...

As with many toxins, exposure to the toxic metal cadmium during pregnancy can adversely impact fetal development. Now, researchers at the Rutgers School of Public Health think they’re beginning to ...