WINNEMUCCA - Humboldt General Hospital has partnered with Donor Network West to bring the first birth tissue donation program ...

The fetal membranes consist of the chorion ... The chorion lies closest to the placenta. The chorionic sac encompasses the fetus and the amnion and is covered with chorionic villi until the ...

Sofía, Philomena, Veronica and Isabel Campos have one heckuva birth story. The identical quadruplets, born at Banner - ...

Vasa previa is a rare complication that can occur during pregnancy. It happens when some of the blood vessels that connect your baby's umbilical cord to your placenta cross over, or near ...

A study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, UTHealth ...

The outer membrane (chorion ... and hormone synthesis of either peptides or steroids that regulate placental and fetal growth, and maternal systems with the protection of pregnancy.

It's a temporary organ that forms in the uterus, or womb, during pregnancy. A healthy placenta attaches to ... At the ...

She and her team first tracked cell lineage from the two-cell stage; they injected mRNA for green fluorescent protein (GFP) fused to a membrane ... the placenta and the inner cell mass (ICM) that ...

You aren’t born with a placenta. Instead it develops in your uterus during pregnancy and acts as life-support for your growing baby. Then once delivery is said and done, it, too, is expelled ...

The placenta is an organ formed in the womb during pregnancy. Connecting the baby ... donated tissue joins that of the patient's. Amniotic membrane has anti-inflammatory and anti-scarring effects.