Amniotic fluid represents an essential component of the in utero environment, playing pivotal roles in fetal protection, development, and clinical management throughout gestation [1]. Its composition ...

Primary fetal organoids are currently derived from tissue samples obtained at termination of pregnancy. We developed an approach that enables prenatal derivation of epithelial organoids from fetal ...

As a fetus develops, its body is bathed in amniotic fluid: a warm, salty soup of nutrients, hormones, and antibodies produced by its mother. And into that fluid, a fetus is constantly sloughing off or ...

Amniotic fluid is chock full of dead cells. And although the cells, which are shed from the developing fetus, have been used in prenatal diagnostics for over four decades, the composition of the tiny ...

Many factors, including genetics, stress, and environmental exposure, can shape pregnancy and fetal development. Physicians who care for pregnant patients and their babies before and after birth work ...