Researchers Create Real-Time View of Placental Development in Mice

By Michaela Martinez

Liping Feng, MD, and colleagues at Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering have developed a new method to visualize the growth of a placenta throughout a mouse’s pregnancy. By coupling an implantable window with ultrafast imaging tools, the approach provides the first opportunity to track placental development to better understand how the organ functions during pregnancy. The research was selected for the cover of Science Advances. Read the full article.

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