Using highly specialized 3D imaging and analysis techniques, we found consistent changes in the shape of the eyes and nose, ...

Contracting Covid-19 or being vaccinated against it during pregnancy does not increase the risk of child developmental health ...

Results were limited to English-language ... fetal or neonatal morbidity, or fetal mortality were eligible for inclusion. The quality of evidence was rated using the Grading of Recommendations ...

The Republican majority caucus in the Missouri Senate has pledged to introduce a new ballot measure to replace Amendment 3, ...

Environmental factors like stress and medication exposure during pregnancy can shape brain development, but the mechanisms ...

Maternal Stress During Pregnancy Could Leave Traces in the Placenta That Could Affect the Baby's Development Feb. 4, 2025 — Maternal stress could leave epigenetic imprints on genes in the ...

Caught between the promising recognition of “social infertility” and the alarming rise of threats to reproductive autonomy, largely fueled by the fetal personhood movement, the topic of queer ...

The findings showed the highest mortality occurred among infants who were Black, lived in Southern states or had fetal birth defects. By Pam Belluck Infant mortality increased along with births in ...

A new study links a particular gene to the ancient origins of spoken language, proposing that a protein variant found only in ...

Now researchers from The Rockefeller University have unearthed intriguing genetic evidence: a protein variant found only in humans that may have helped shape the emergence of spoken language.