Environmental factors like stress and medication exposure during pregnancy can shape brain development, but the mechanisms ...

This stage is critical, as implantation is unlikely without adequately developing embryos. Sophisticated techniques, such as ...

The video, nicknamed “Baby Olivia,” claims to show the stages of fetal development through computer-generated imaging. However, the narration makes several misrepresentations about when a ...

Maternal stress could leave epigenetic imprints on genes in the placenta associated with cortisol -- a necessary hormone for fetal development -- and this would affect the baby's development from very ...

A bill that would that would require schools show an ultrasound as well as a video about fetal development to students in 4th through 12th grades has passed the Iowa Senate by a 31-13 vote. Senator ...

Senate Bill 1046 proposes fetal development classroom instruction for students in grades 5-12, sparking conversation over ...

The legislation also requires students to be taught information about the stages of pregnancy and fetal development in the womb, and to be shown a high-definition ultrasound video "showing the ...

Stress during pregnancy may cause changes in placental genes linked to cortisol regulation. These changes could impact fetal ...

Elevated stress hormones later during pregnancy or after birth did ... important insights into the influence of early life stages on the development of the stress system under natural ...

Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 and ended a nationwide right to abortion, most ...

Maternal stress could leave epigenetic imprints on genes in the placenta associated with cortisol, and this would affect the ...