Discover the first in-utero treatment for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) using risdiplam. Promising results show no SMA signs ...

"It highlights the importance these methods hold." Researchers reveal groundbreaking method to predict how childhood health ...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder set in motion before birth. Scientists at St. Jude ...

Large-scale, longitudinal studies of humans whose mothers smoked marijuana once or more per week and experimental work on rodents exposed to cannabinoids in utero have yielded remarkably consistent ...

A mom's viral TikTok reveals how one twin's jaw was affected by in-utero pressure from her sister. Despite the initial concern, the mom of two has perfectly healthy twin girls and the issue has since ...

MRI scans of human fetuses in utero—here, between 27 and 29 weeks of gestation—show the development of the brain and other organs and body parts. This story appears in the June 2017 issue of ...

Pediatric surgeons at the University of California, San Francisco, have treated a second-trimester fetus with stem cells taken from her mother’s bone marrow. The baby, born in February, was the first ...