Research published yesterday in the journal Nature provides further insight into how the placenta differs from other human organs. Led by scientists from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the ...

Placenta-specific proteins, exemplified by Placenta-Specific Protein 1 (PLAC1), are normally confined to trophoblast cells yet are aberrantly re-expressed across a range of malignancies. This ...

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This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

Stvetomir Markovic knew something was different. Sometime around 2010, a fellow scientist at the Mayo Clinic had agreed to donate her healthy blood for use in the research laboratory where Markovic ...

A startup that's using stem cells from placentas for various regenerative medicine and cell therapy treatments just raised $250 million. Celularity is a New Jersey-based company founded by X-Prize ...

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. - Mary Floyd is on the other side of a cancer diagnosis that turned the now 69 year old's life upside down. "I didn't know what to do. How to say it," says Floyd. Even now, nearly 5 ...