Until now, scientific evidence has been inconclusive regarding the ability of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, to replicate in the human placenta. Answering this question, as well as ...

NEW YORK – Ms Marcella Townsend remembers looking around the kitchen in shock. In the silence just after the gas explosion, before the pain kicked in, she found herself almost in awe of the crushed ...

Researchers have found a new way to produce human blood cells in the lab that mimics the process in natural embryos. Their ...

The findings raise concerns about risks to fetal development, as studies emerge linking nanoplastics to heart disease and death Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously ...

In a groundbreaking study that has raised alarms across the scientific community, researchers at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences have discovered the pervasive presence of microplastics in ...

It turns out that a gene called LTR5Hs activates a gene that affects the growth of an embryo and the proliferation of stem ...

Researchers reported finding microplastics in all 62 of the placenta samples tested, with concentrations ranging from 6.5 to 790 micrograms per gram of tissue. A flurry of recent studies has found ...

Researchers found microplastics in every single placenta tested during a study. The adverse health impacts of nano- and microplastics is not fully known, but research is emerging that shows the damage ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did not appear to know basic facts about female anatomy in his ...