About 20 years ago, New Jersey and Pennsylvania began to replace highway toll booths with E-ZPass plazas. It was a major transformation: No longer required to stop and fish for change, motorists ...

Scientists found that a mother's relative exposure to air pollution correlates to the amount of soot found in the fetal placenta. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

When air pollution particles — the sooty black carbon that’s emitted during the burning of fossil fuels such as gasoline and coal — are breathed in by pregnant women, they eventually reach and cross ...

(Reuters Health) - Airborne carbon particles that can cause health problems in adults and children are getting into the placenta as it nourishes a developing fetus, a new study has found. Tissue ...

Air pollution has the potential to travel from a pregnant woman’s lungs to the fetal side of the placenta, according to a new study. Researchers at Hasselt University in Belgium in a study reported in ...

The fetal side of a placenta from a patient with coronavirus, connected to the umbilical cord. Evidence of the disease process in the placenta is not visible in this photo. Disclaimer: AAAS and ...