Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fetus develops a brain and spinal cord early on. Find out how this development occurs and what you can do to support it. Fact ...

New research using live mouse-adapted influenza virus improves upon previous mouse experiments to explain how maternal infection impacts fetal brain development. The study also indicates fetal brain ...

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image: University of Houston biomedical engineer Kirill Larin is expanding the use of Optical Coherence Tomography to peer into the fetal brain to assess how it is impacted by maternal drinking and ...

A baby girl who developed a life-threatening brain condition was successfully treated before she was born—and is now a healthy seven-week-old. She doesn’t know it yet, but a baby girl living somewhere ...

Scientists have developed 3D mini-organs from human fetal brain tissue that self-organize in vitro. These lab-grown organoids open up a brand-new way of studying how the brain develops. They also ...

A new study finds that when pregnant people get COVID, their male children have a greater risk of subtle neurodevelopmental effects. The country's tally of COVID-19 cases includes more than 200,000 ...

A new study by researchers at the Hospital del Mar Research Institute and Yale University suggests that the origins of several brain-related disorders may be found in the earliest stages of fetal ...

In a recent study published in the Nutrients journal, researchers assessed the impact of maternal obesity on brain development in the fetus. Study: Maternal Obesity and Gut Microbiota Are Associated ...

Immune activation in a pregnant woman can occur in response to metabolic diseases like obesity, infections in pregnancy, exposure to pollution and environmental toxins, or even stress and can have ...