A new study has given insights into placental contractions during pregnancy, using MRI imaging to show how placental and uterine contractions can be ...

India, May 1 -- In a study using MRI scans of 36 healthy pregnancies, about 60% showed that the placenta can contract on its ...

May 5 is International Day of the Midwife. This year's theme is "one million more" — reflecting a shortage of midwives based ...

Brain Health Perspective by scientists in the USA, Germany, and Canada converges measurement, mechanism and intervention as the field moves from alarm to action We are looking at the brain, an organ ...

Two hundred years ago, Thomas Robert Malthus wrote an essay on population growth in which he described how its continuing ...

A team of researchers discover how the stentor, an organism made of a single, gigantic cell, learns without a brain.

The mother complex can shape how we give and receive care, trust, and love, influencing relationships in ways often outside ...

Cell walls are a crucial structure of plant life, protecting cells from damage, giving plants shape, and containing ...

The brain’s memory center may begin life more like a crowded web than an empty canvas. Researchers discovered that early ...

A raft of research is recasting the thymus from a bit player to a potent regulator of aging and immune health.

Trying to untangle a knot in a mess of strings can be frustrating and time-consuming. But not so for molecular ...

The sunlight-collecting organelles known as chloroplasts solve a packing problem: how to optimize photosynthesis without ...