Learn about our Editorial Policies. Approximately five days post fertilization (dpf), the blastocyst develops. The inner cell mass gives rise to the fetus, while the surrounding trophectoderm ...

She hopes that these tools can one day help reveal how defects emerging early in development set the stage for placental diseases like preeclampsia. The uterine wall is home to glands, vessels, ...

Maternal stress could leave epigenetic imprints on genes in the placenta associated with cortisol -- a necessary hormone for fetal development -- and this would affect the baby's development from very ...

The marsupials have a yolk sac placenta (the initial stage in the development of the placenta in placental mammals. In placental mammals, the chorion and the allantois together form the fetal side of ...

Maternal stress could leave epigenetic imprints on genes in the placenta associated with cortisol—a necessary hormone for ...

Maternal stress could leave epigenetic imprints on genes in the placenta associated with cortisol - a necessary hormone for ...

Friedrich Miescher Institute/University of Cambrid The "mini-placenta' is a cellular model of the early stages of the placenta ... pregnancy depends on the development of the placenta in the ...