Who would have thought that mothers can pass over their mental health status to their fetuses? In a new study, experts at the University of California in Irvine (UCI) found that depressed would-be mothers can pass information about their mental health to the fetus through chemical signals.
The placenta – th... |
12 November 2011
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A new research carried out by scientists from Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Children's Hospital of Boston, concluded that the bacteria that colonizes the placenta during pregnancy could be linked to preterm birth and other developmental problems in newborns.In the United States, p... |
28 January 2011
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A new organism develops inside the woman's womb due to the placenta, a special organ for delivering food and oxygen from the mother to the fetus. A new research made at the Stanford University School of Medicine and published in the journal Genome Research has revealed the first genetic clues about the ancient o... |
16 April 2008
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A fetus is like a strange organism living inside the woman's womb. The fetus develops the placenta, a special organ for sucking food and oxygen from the mother. But the placenta, like the fetus, has a different DNA from that of the mother, and the body generally attacks parasites and foreign bodies using all the... |
12 November 2007
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There is a tough war between sexes, which does not finish with the egg fertilization: both parents want to control their own the fetus' growth rate, even in the case of the nutrient-supplying mother that has a placenta and gives birth to live offspring. A team has discovered evidence of genetic weaponry and a ge... |
3 August 2007
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You could have been born weighing a few grams and as big as a bean or yuckier from a soft-shelled egg...But instead of carrying you into a marsupium, your mother delivered a 3-5 kg (8-13 pounds) hunk, resembling a human being (more or less). That's because she fed you through an organ called placenta ("pie" in ... |
18 April 2007
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