The anti-abortion movement is rallying around new laws that establish fetal 'personhood.' Doctors are scrambling to adjust, but even conservatives don't always agree on how they should be applied.

The switch from fetal γ-globin to adult β-globin is controlled by BCL11A. Genetic manipulation of BCL11A improves disease outcomes by turning γ-globin expression back on to compensate for ...

South Carolina's Supreme Court upheld the state's 2023 fetal heartbeat law, banning abortions after cardiac activity is detected, typically around six weeks. The law allows exceptions for medical ...

The stress responses promote cell proliferation in the placenta that reinforces the barrier between the fetus and maternal blood circulation. Comparing placental stress responses in COVID-19 and ...

Fetal cardiovascular MRI in congenital heart disease is a promising supplementary imaging method to echocardiography for the diagnosis of antenatal congenital heart disease in weeks 30–40 of pregnancy ...

Ensuring safe pregnancy and reducing maternal and infant mortality rates require early prediction of fetal health. The application of machine learning algorithms in monitoring fetal health helps to ...

Ultrasound scans cannot detect fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) or other fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs). Diagnosis occurs after birth. Learn more here.

Immune activation in a pregnant woman can have negative effects on the development of fetal brain microglia—or macrophage immune cells in the brain—and even lead to neurodevelopmental ...

The identified fetal 1D wave propagation models describe a part of the fetal circulation to answer a specific research question. Similar as lumped parameter models, wave propagation models focus ...

But what exactly do we mean when we talk about a "fetal heartbeat" at six weeks of pregnancy? Although some people might picture a heart -shaped organ beating inside a fetus, this is not the case.