Placenta News
The placenta is an organ serving as the connection between mother and developing baby.
Researchers at UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley identify a drug that may be able to block the Zika virus, which infects numerous cell types in the human placenta and amniotic sac.
The deadly zika virus can infect and replicate in immune cells from the placenta without even killing them.
The US researchers have identified two life-threatening vector-borne diseases that can be passed from mother to child through the placenta.
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