In 2017, Ashley Moffett, a reproductive immunologist, walked to the pharmacy near her laboratory at the University of ...

Placental organoid (circle in the centre). Trophoblast cells are invading out of the organoid, mimicking placental cells invading the uterus in the early weeks of pregnancy. Scientists have grown ...

Apart from possibly the great apes, no animal has a placenta quite like ours, 1 which makes it difficult to study. But studying the placenta is critical since it plays a role in life-threatening ...

Scientists have grown 'mini-placentas' in the lab and used them to shed light on how the placenta develops and interacts with the inner lining of the womb – findings that could help scientists better ...

The mother-fetus relationship involves close cooperation, with a unique interaction in the placenta between fetal cells and maternal white blood cells. But, despite many advances, reviews by Ashley ...

Scientists have grown 'mini-placentas' in the lab and used them to shed light on how the placenta develops and interacts with the inner lining of the womb -- findings that could help scientists better ...