Your body does extraordinary things during pregnancy and goes out of its way to support your growing baby. It even develops a new organ called the placenta, which transfers all the nutrients to your ...

As your baby grows, your body undergoes many changes to support a new life. The placenta plays a crucial role in this process. You know it gives you oxygen and food, but it also protects itself while ...

The National Institutes of Health has announced $46 million in research awards for the Human Placenta Project, an initiative to revolutionize understanding of the placenta. The awards will fund ...

The placenta has long been thought to produce serotonin during pregnancy. But in a new study, Yale researchers shatter the deep-rooted hypothesis — and show that the placenta doesn’t produce serotonin ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With some bioengineering, placentas can be recycled for various medical treatments. mikroman6/Moment via Getty Images Eating a ...

Eating a placenta may not give you the health benefits some people want you to believe it has, but using it as a bandage might. While some mammals may eat their own placentas due to limited ...