An anterior placenta – one that sits at the front of your uterus – is very common and rarely causes any problems in pregnancy ...

Professor Vicki Clifton, a leading maternal health researcher at Mater Research Institute-University of Queensland, unveils ...

Not only is a goat placenta very different from a human or horse placenta but how it functions is also different, as well as how it should be managed after birth. In this episode, we are talking ...

Leading obstetricians and gynaecologists have debunked claims and myths that a woman could be pregnant for three years or more.

The research challenges conventional understanding of stress responses during pregnancy. While most glucocorticoid receptors ...

Your placenta is the lifeline between you and your baby while it's growing inside you. Once it's served that purpose, it's usually discarded. But you can choose to do any number of things with it ...

In recent years, extensive research has been dedicated to understanding the implications of alcohol consumption during ...

The fusion and fission of mitochondria have several important functions. These processes control the morphology of mitochondria, allow content exchange between mitochondria, control mitochondrial ...

In economics, the utility function measures the welfare or satisfaction of a consumer as a function of the consumption of real goods, such as food or clothing. Utility function is widely used in ...

Authors should provide at the time of submission a short paragraph explaining why their work justifies urgent publication as a Communication. Ideally, a Full paper in Food & Function should follow ...

According to Dr Odongo, the placenta functions to keep pregnancy intact before nine months elapses, at which point a baby is born. “It produces a range of hormones to keep the pregnancy stable.

The involvement of noncoding mRNAs in many regulatory processes, their abundance, and their diversity of functions has led to the hypothesis that an "RNA world" may have preceded the evolution of ...