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

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

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 ...

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 ...

A Phase 1 clinical trial published in The Lancet has found that combining stem cell therapy with standard fetal surgery before birth is a safe and promising approach to treating myelomeningocele, a ...

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