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

A chronological map of the fetal brain reveals when key cells emerge and provides clues about autism and cancer.

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.

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 ...

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A fetal development video created by an anti-abortion group may become a required watch in Utah schools with a bill advancing the Legislature this year. Under legislation by Tooele Republican Rep.

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 ...

New research traces plastics from food to placentas to fetal organs. Nanoscale plastic particles like those that permeate most food and water pass from pregnant rats to their unborn children and may ...