New placenta model could reveal how birth defect-causing infectious agents cross from mother to baby

Tuesday, March 8, 2016 - 12:32 in Health & Medicine

Researchers have devised a cell-based model of the human placenta that could help explain how pathogens that cause birth defects, such as Zika virus, cross from mother to unborn child.

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