5 Things We Bet You Didn’t Know about the Placenta
The placenta does a whole lot more than just ferry oxygen and nutrients to the fetus and take away wastes and carbon dioxide
Adrian Erlebacher is a professor in the department of laboratory medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine. He conducts studies in mice to tease out the properties of the pregnant uterus that enable it to immunologically tolerate the placenta. Credit: Nick Higgins
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