New research in mice and pigs shows that the placental hormone GDF15 drives fetal growth by activating a STAT3-IGF2 signaling ...

A team of researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health has developed a new ultrasound technique to monitor the placenta for impaired fetal blood flow early in pregnancy. The technique, ...

A new review of MRI cohort studies shows that brain injury in newborns with congenital heart disease begins before surgery ...

Persistent Fetal Circulation. Rostal-caudal MRA projection. A number of individuals have a normal anatomic variant known as a persistent fetal circulation, where the posterior cerebral artery (PCA) ...

The court, quoting from one of the patents, noted that: The major proportion (generally >90%) of the extracellular DNA in material circulation is derived from the mother. This vast bulk of maternal ...