Concerns about the impact of pharmaceutical agents on fetal development have prompted researchers at Iowa State University to undertake a key study using a placenta-on-a-chip model. The study, focused on the transport of ...
Sep 12, 2023
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Prenatal exposure to viruses capable of infecting the fetal brain, particularly in the first trimester, can cause a range of developmental defects in the baby. The Zika epidemic in Brazil during 2015–16 posed an extreme ...
Aug 9, 2023
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Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have found that cannabidiol (CBD), often used to treat anxiety and nausea, can potentially harm a developing fetus. The paper was published in Molecular Psychiatry.
Jul 13, 2023
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In a first, a team from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Boston Children's Hospital successfully treated an aggressive vascular malformation in an infant's brain before birth, avoiding potentially fatal symptoms after delivery.
May 4, 2023
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An international team of 79 researchers have collaborated on a study published in Nature Medicine to delve into perivascular spaces (PVS), a poorly understood artifact seen in magnetic resonance imaging of cerebral small ...
It's highly unlikely, but COVID-19 can be transmitted from mother to baby through the placenta, causing injury to the developing fetus' brain, a new study finds.
Apr 7, 2023
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A team of medical scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics has found structural differences in white matter in the human brain that can be linked to genetic variants that may be responsible for some behavioral ...
New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London has found evidence of small hemorrhages in the brain tissue of fetuses during the peak of COVID-19 cases in the UK.
Jan 16, 2023
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Alcohol exposure in early pregnancy can change gene function during the tightly regulated embryonic development, and consequently cause developmental disorders—especially neurodevelopmental disorders. Novel information ...
Jan 3, 2023
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Studying mice has filled encyclopedias with breakthrough medical discoveries. But when it comes to brain cancers, the little rodents have long exhibited fundamental limitations.
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