A phase 1 clinical trial published in The Lancet has shown that combining stem cell therapy with standard fetal surgery ...

Six pregnant women participated in a small trial in which placenta-derived stem cells were applied to fetal spinal cords and the treatment was found to be safe. Spina bifida, a condition in which the ...

A first-in-human, phase I single-arm trial has found that in-utero treatment of myelomeningocele, the most severe form of spina bifida, using allogeneic live stem cells was both feasible and ...

The discovery of a gene essential to early embryonic development sheds light on the preliminary stages of human placenta formation. A team led by scientists from the University of California San Diego ...

Stanford Medicine pediatric hematologist Agnieszka Czechowicz, MD, Ph.D., has devoted her research career to improving ...

Modern medicine has begun to recognize that the placenta can have significant medical and scientific value even after childbirth.