What Is Cord Blood Banking? Cord blood banking is a process of collecting potentially life-saving stem cells from the umbilical cord and placenta and storing them for future use. Stem cells are ...

What is placenta accreta? It's a rare condition that affects around 0.2% of pregnancies. Normally, your placenta forms an attachment to the uterine lining, called the endometrium. But if you have ...

Paul Laskey's eye has been saved with the help of a donated placenta A donated placenta has been used to help save a man's eye after an acid attack. Acid was squirted into Paul Laskey's face ...

Prior studies have illustrated many of the effects of IA inflammation on the uterine lining (decidua) and membranous layers of the placenta at the fetal–maternal interface. However, much less is known ...

No subjects were recruited or consented for this study since we used discarded placenta from normal term, not-in-labor cesarean sections that were de-identified before they were received by lab staff, ...