A complication of pregnancy that causes the mother’s blood pressure to rise – often fatally – is more common in women of African descent than any other. Research in Uganda by African and Cambridge researchers is helping to uncover why.
Deficiencies associated with spina bifida, heart defects and placental abnormalities.
The placenta is the interface between the mother and her baby, which means it is not only key to a successful pregnancy, it determines the future health of every one of us.
Studies in La Paz, the highest city in the world, are helping to uncover a link between prenatal conditions and heart disease in later life.
Epigenetics is taking the biomedical research world by storm; three Cambridge scientists use examples from their own research to explain why.
Most pregnancies develop normally but when complications arise they can have devastating effects. Two recent initiatives in Cambridge hope to deliver a new understanding of events during this critical period of human life.
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