Find out when the placenta forms, and how the placenta supports your baby during your pregnancy.

WASHINGTON -- Scientists carefully probe a placenta donated after birth, bluish umbilical cord still attached. This is the body's most mysterious organ, and inside lie clues to how this giver of life ...

Researchers lead a study showing the cellular detail of how the placenta changes during pregnancy. Early in pregnancy, something strange happens in the uterus: Cells from the fetal side of the ...

Childbirth doesnt end with the babys arrival A gynaecologist explains the final stage of labour the delivery of the placenta ...

Give credit to your dad’s gene for keeping you safe during those long months in your mother’s womb. Because without this genetic warrior, you might have succumbed to any number of viral infections ...