In utero gene therapy uses prenatal genetic screening to identify fetuses with lethal mutations and delivers corrective genes ...

An interdisciplinary and international team of researchers is using a National Institutes of Health grant to investigate how astrocytes — star-shaped brain cells that support neurons — contribute to ...

Children exposed to opioids before birth may face increased risks of difficulties with vision, attention, behavior and ...

A Wellcome Sanger Institute study found that rare genetic variants have a stronger impact on cognition in early childhood, ...

Researchers say prenatal development could influence ageing, although healthy lifestyle choices remain important throughout ...

Most expectant parents know smoking during pregnancy isn't good for the baby, but few realise just how far-reaching the ...

Prenatal estrogen brain development research: two studies in Early Human Development find that first-trimester maternal ...

A maternal-fetal medicine expert told Newsweek the findings warrant study, but pregnant women shouldn't stop medications.

Playing classical music to your child while they’re still in the womb can stimulate development, new research suggests. Music ...

A recent study published in Translational Psychiatry suggests that the chemical makeup of blood in a newborn’s umbilical cord ...

If you’re “actively trying to have babies,” one expert told me, “both the man and the woman should be abstaining” from alcohol.

There is no statistically significant evidence that taking acetaminophen, also known as Tylenol, during pregnancy has a negative impact on how early a child is born or a child's weight at birth, ...