Articles about 'pregnancy'

How do cells become equipped to generate a whole new organism?

A complex interplay of prenatal and postnatal factors determines the risk of childhood obesity and diabetes during later life.

Research at Cambridge University's Autism Research Centre (ARC) has found that exposure to high levels of testosterone in the womb is related to the development of autistic traits.

Epigenetics is taking the biomedical research world by storm; three Cambridge scientists use examples from their own research to explain why.

A new centre which will research the vital biological interactions between a mother and her fetus launched today, Wednesday 9 July, at the University of Cambridge.

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.

Research conducted by the University of Cambridge in collaboration with the MRC Centre for Lifelong Health and Ageing, has revealed a link between weight at birth and depression and anxiety through the next five decades of life.