We have developed a web-based summer remediation course for medical students who have received a failing grade during their initial course in Medical Embryology. Students take the course online while ...

The placenta never fails to amaze. The conventions that we take for granted as required for the normal formation and function of other organs are often flouted by placental trophoblasts, the ...

This is the third in a series of concise dental textbooks with the other two devoted to contemporary dental materials and oral medicine. The editor is Professor of Oral Medicine at the University of ...

What critically important organ belongs to a newborn baby—that most mothers never even see—but is cut off and thrown away at birth? It is the placenta. The placenta can offer a window into the health ...

Oliver Griffith receives funding from Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies. Considering how different they look from the outside, it might be surprising that all vertebrates – animals with a backbone ...

Ever wondered where the placenta got its name? In Italy in the 1500s, the anatomist Matteo Realdo Colombo coined this term to describe the large fleshy organ of pregnancy. Colombo chose placenta ...