A growing number of lawmakers are proposing legislation to require fetal development education in public schools. Credit: Sebastian Kaulitzki/Science Photo Library/Getty Images The Hechinger Report ...

A new study shows oxygenation levels in the placenta, formed during the last three months of fetal development, are an important predictor of cortical growth (development of the outermost layer of the ...

Gov. Kim Reynolds has signed a law requiring schools to show 5th to 12th grade students videos of fetal development that depict "the humanity of the unborn child." The law forbids schools from using ...

Men drink more, are more likely to binge drink and are almost four times more likely to develop alcohol use disorder than women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Yet when ...

A new study in the journal Nature Mental Health explores how a mother’s positive state of mind during pregnancy affects the structure and function of the developing fetal brain by measuring these ...

Humans develop sharp vision during early fetal development thanks to an interplay between a vitamin A derivative and thyroid ...

Using a combination for spatial, single-cell transcriptomics and imaging data from 36 hearts, scientists from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology and their collaborators have come up with what they ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Men drink more, are more likely to binge drink and are almost four times ...

A new study published in Nature Communications provides direct evidence that antidepressant use during pregnancy can impact a child’s brain development and contribute to the risk of mental health ...