Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fetus develops a brain and spinal cord early on. Find out how this development occurs and what you can do to support it. Fact ...

A new study maps how prenatal stress alters immune signalling in the developing brain at a level of detail not seen before ...

A team of more than 200 researchers around the world, involving multiple health and scientific institutions, led by the University of Oxford, has published the first digital atlas showing the dynamics ...

A new study shows oxygenation levels in the placenta, formed during the last three months of fetal development, are an important predictor of cortical growth (development of the outermost layer of the ...

The development of a child begins during pregnancy, when prenatal environmental factors and genetic influences interact to shape fetal development and long-term health outcomes. Increasing evidence ...

Diagnostic imaging and genetic screens help clinicians catch congenital fetal diseases in utero, but models for studying organ development and disease progression are limited. Over the last decade, ...