Lab-grown ‘mini placentas’ could hold key to better understanding pre-eclampsia
by Storm Newton
Jan 17, 2024
2 minutes
Lab-grown “mini placentas” could be crucial to better understanding major disorders in pregnancy such as pre-eclampsia, scientists have suggested.
Academics said the development of pre-eclampsia can depend on issues with how the placenta develops in the first weeks of pregnancy and “is a process that is incredibly difficult to study”.
Using the mini placentas – developed by researchers at the University of , the Wellcome Sanger Institute and – could be key to understanding, predicting and preventing the condition.
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