Researchers find that declining placental NAD+ levels may promote labor onset, opening new avenues for predicting preterm ...

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Melatonin reduced infection-related inflammation in human fetal membranes in an ex vivo model. The study suggests that this ...

A typical human pregnancy lasts 40 weeks, but most parents know this number is only a rough estimate. Babies are born on a seemingly unpredictable timeline, with a normal pregnancy ranging from 38 to ...

Women's gut health may affect their risk of preterm birth, new research suggests. Preterm birth can have many causes and risk factors, and researchers in China may have identified another one: the ...

Extremely preterm birth (before 28 weeks of gestation) places infants into the world at one of the most extraordinary moments in human development. The brain at this stage is not simply growing; it is ...

Declining placental concentrations of a molecule that plays a key role in metabolism appear to trigger the end of pregnancy ...