A recently published study shows that placental health is highly correlated with stillbirth and other pregnancy complications. Researchers were trying to pinpoint causes and risk factors for stillbirths, and found that in 26% of the cases where the pregnancy did not go to term, problems with the placenta were the causative factor. They were looking [...]

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 [...]