The placenta keeps the fetus healthy in the womb and, after birth, can be donated to strangers to offer "miraculous" healing power. The Cleveland Clinic describes the vital role of a healthy placenta.

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New research by La Trobe University in Australia has found that giving human placenta cells to mice reduced high blood pressure and the inflammation and cognitive impairment caused by it.

During pregnancy, the placenta secretes hormones that increase insulin resistance, which may cause gestational diabetes (GD). Left untreated, diabetes can damage the placenta. GD begins in the ...

The placenta is an incredible body part. It’s the only organ grown temporarily, created during pregnancy and discarded after birth. It has the enormous job of supporting the growth of a fetus, ...

Now, they can add helping grow a healthy placenta during pregnancy to the list ... Although there are important differences between mouse and human gestation, the researchers said it's possible ...

Researchers used primary human placenta cells, a mouse fetal model of the disease and a new technology of spatial transcriptomics which allows researchers to zoom in on placental microenvironments ...

Never mind, you might say. After all, the body part in question – the placenta – is supposed to be a temporary organ. No one wants to go through life attached at the navel to a blob of tissue ...