By engineering a system replicating the womb lining with high biological accuracy, researchers at the Babraham Institute and ...

Thalassemia is a genetic blood disorder that may significantly affect pregnancy, especially when both parents are carriers.

Courtesy Getty Images In some rare cases, chorionic villus sampling can cause the mother to come into contact with the infant's blood, leading to alloimmunization. In pregnancies at risk of developing ...

You may use traces of human chorionic gonadotropin in the urine to find out if you are pregnant. You can measure human chorionic gonadotropin levels to help you find out whether you are carrying a ...

This important study uses single-cell transcriptomics to analyze syncytiotrophoblasts in two trophoblast organoid models compared to primary placental tissue, providing compelling insights into ...

Genetic testing during pregnancy helps detect chromosomal or genetic conditions like Down syndrome and inherited disorders. This test is recommended for women over 35 or with a family history. We ...

If the development of blood vessels in the placenta is impaired, fetal growth retardation may result. Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the Mannheim Medical Faculty of ...

Bulgaria-born Villi Iltchev built an unlikely career as an early investor in now-public GitLab — generating $900 million in profits from one deal — among other unicorns like Remote. Now with Category ...

Villi Iltchev, previously a senior partner at Two Sigma Ventures and August Capital, has set up a new venture firm, Category Ventures, striking out on his own in a tough fundraising market. San ...

Middle-income countries—home today to 6 billion people—are in a race against time. Since the 1990s, many of them have done well enough to escape low-income levels and eradicate extreme poverty, ...

University of Canberra provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. University of Cape Town provides funding as a partner of The Conversation AFRICA. Development finance is the invisible glue ...

Chorionic villus sampling (CVS) is a prenatal test that is used to detect birth defects, genetic diseases, and other problems during pregnancy. The test involves collecting a small sample of cells ...