To work toward earlier detection, Nadkarni studies the placenta. The organ grows in a gestating mammal’s uterus to nourish a fetus—but can do that properly only if the immune system is working.

In order to gain a better understanding of how such malformations can arise, Augustin and his team have now examined the blood vessels of the mouse placenta at the single-cell level. The ...

1 That was until a few years ago, when researchers generated mouse pups using genetic material from two same-sex parents ... Although this strategy successfully generated embryos, they failed to ...

Researchers demonstrate regenerative capability of placental Cdx2 cells in mouse model of heart attack. Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (NY, USA) have recently ...