Spinal muscular atrophy is a rare genetic disorder causing progressive muscle weakness, now in focus after Jesy Nelson shared her twins' diagnosis.

RRS1, a ribosome-biogenesis factor previously linked to tumor growth, is now shown to be indispensable for normal human ...

Contrary to what you might think, the 'Christmas Disease' isn't named after the festive season. In fact, this alternative name for Haemophilia B was coined in honour of a patient named Stephen ...

Courtesy Getty Images In some rare cases, chorionic villus sampling can cause the mother to come into contact with the infant's blood, leading to alloimmunization. In pregnancies at risk of developing ...

You may use traces of human chorionic gonadotropin in the urine to find out if you are pregnant. You can measure human chorionic gonadotropin levels to help you find out whether you are carrying a ...

This important study uses single-cell transcriptomics to analyze syncytiotrophoblasts in two trophoblast organoid models compared to primary placental tissue, providing compelling insights into ...

If the development of blood vessels in the placenta is impaired, fetal growth retardation may result. Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the Mannheim Medical Faculty of ...

Bulgaria-born Villi Iltchev built an unlikely career as an early investor in now-public GitLab — generating $900 million in profits from one deal — among other unicorns like Remote. Now with Category ...

Villi Iltchev, previously a senior partner at Two Sigma Ventures and August Capital, has set up a new venture firm, Category Ventures, striking out on his own in a tough fundraising market. San ...

Cedars-Sinai and UCLA investigators have studied first trimester placental tissue and found that for some genes, the process that turns their information into a biological function may depend on the ...