Frcblog.com recently wrote a blog “You will always be With Me: Fetal Cells Cross Placenta and Stay with Mom for life” The article is inspired from a National Public Radio’s Morning Edition program in which Science editor Robert Krulwich reports on fetomaternal microchimerism.  A bit about fetomaternal microchimerism (please allow wikipedia to go further into [...]

Once again research is finding just how dynamic the placenta truly is. New research has found pituitary hormones from the placenta have ancestral origins in therian (live bearing) mammals.  “Placental expression of these pituitary hormones has clearly been conserved in marsupials as in eutherian (placental) mammals, suggesting an ancestral origin [...]

New research published in the journal Nature is showing that the placenta produces seratonin prenatally. This is a new exciting finding, since it was always believed that the baby got the seratonin from the mother. When they discovered that seratonin can not cross the placenta, they started looking for where the seratonin was coming from, [...]

At long last, here is Part 2 of the AAA conference session paper summaries. If you missed it, you can read Part 1 here.
Dr. Daniel Benyshek presented the preliminary data from our intra-placental comparison study, where we look at what my method of preparation does to certain analytes in the placenta. Encouragingly, NONE of [...]

I am recently returned (as of late last night) from the American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting in New Orleans, LA. I was there to present my paper based on the results of my online survey that I blogged about last month. I have closed the survey for now, since we are going to revamp it before [...]

Thanks to everyone who participated in the first round of the Placenta Survey! We had wonderful data to present at the American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting in New Orleans this past Thursday.
I have temporarily closed the survey so we can edit some of the questions and add some things we would really like to know [...]

Calling all placenta-eaters! Here is an opportunity to contribute to research being done out of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). We need your input! This data is going to be very important in determining whether or not placentophagy is beneficial to postpartum women.
Take the survey now
The official recruitment letter:
Greetings,
This is an invitation [...]

Here’s a shocker: BPA (the chemical component found in plastics) has health risks! Researchers in Canada did testing on placental cells to find out if this chemical, commonly found in most Americans (including pregnant women), and discovered that it does have a detrimental effect on the placenta.
The most worrisome part of this research study [...]

I am very pleased to report that the placenta research out of UNLV (University of NV, Las Vegas) is currently under way! Research on placenta is incredibly timely and necessary.
For this particular research study, we are analyzing fresh placental tissue for a variety of hormones, vitamins and minerals that are purported to be contained [...]

A bio-therapeutics company based in Israel was just granted FDA approval for a clinical trial to examine the effects of their new product, which integrates placenta stem cells, on peripheral artery disease.
They’ve developed a way to extract the stem cells from the placenta with their proprietary 3D PluriX™ technology. They’ve also come up with a [...]