Here’s a fun fact for your next virtual trivia night: What’s the only organ that we can grow temporarily, and discard after it’s been used? The answer: the placenta. It may be a disposable organ, but ...

The placenta has long been thought to produce serotonin during pregnancy. But in a new study, Yale researchers shatter the deep-rooted hypothesis — and show that the placenta doesn’t produce serotonin ...

A patchwork of genomic differences in the placenta may explain the organ’s “live fast, die young” strategy and its connections to cancer. In 2008, while the medical resident Sam Behjati was doing his ...

An anterior placenta is a typical variation of pregnancy. However, it is not an accurate way to predict the sex of the baby. People with anterior placentas can have both boys and girls. Many expecting ...

Your baby's placenta attaches to the inside of your uterus early in pregnancy. As the uterus grows, the placenta attachment site typically moves upward and away from the cervix, or opening to the ...

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