When it’s time to bring new life into the world, the human body transforms itself in remarkable ways. The immune system, which usually fights off anything that reads as foreign, learns to chill out so ...

For the first time, scientists have mapped the metabolic changes that different parts of the body go through during a primate’s pregnancy. The results suggest that pregnancy-related conditions such as ...

Endogenous estrogen and progesterone and their metabolites play a key role in regulating and maintaining the normal pregnancy process. However, the dynamic change of these estrogen and progesterone ...

Sex-specific differences in foetal growth and developmental trajectories emerge early in human gestation and are largely mediated by the placenta. Male and female foetuses exhibit distinct patterns of ...

How did your heart form? What triggered your first heartbeat? To this day, the mechanisms of human heart development remain elusive. Researchers know the heart is the first organ to fully function in ...