Science is Now Focusing more on Researching the Placenta

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By Anna Scanlon

With the threat of the Zika virus passing on life-altering birth defects to children of infected mothers, scientists have taken to studying the human placenta with the National Institutes of Health’s $50 million Human Placenta Project. What is often simply dismissed as “afterbirth” is actually quite helpful in discovering the causes of diseases and other genetic risk factors that can potentially hurt the fetus. [1]

Because the placenta does so much for the fetus, (it acts as its lungs, liver, and kidneys, provides nourishment, and immune defense within the room) it is a wonder that it took so long for scientists …read more

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