The miracle of life, the process of embryo to fetus to baby is deeply mysterious and engaging to ponder for any of us birth, placenta, and baby lovers. The-scientist.com recently published an article by Amy Maxmen, “Embryos Right Genetic Wrongs?” and our lovely placenta was mentioned. A recent study with new evidence proposes the idea […]
Research
The Placenta wires babies brains prenatally
New research published in the journal Nature is showing that the placenta produces seratonin prenatally. This is a new exciting finding, since it was always believed that the baby got the seratonin from the mother. When they discovered that seratonin can not cross the placenta, they started looking for where the seratonin was coming from, […]
AAA conference session paper summaries, continued
At long last, here is Part 2 of the AAA conference session paper summaries. If you missed it, you can read Part 1 here. Dr. Daniel Benyshek presented the preliminary data from our intra-placental comparison study, where we look at what my method of preparation does to certain analytes in the placenta. Encouragingly, NONE of […]
AAA Conference in New Orleans
I am recently returned (as of late last night) from the American Anthropological Association‘s annual meeting in New Orleans, LA. I was there to present my paper based on the results of my online survey that I blogged about last month. I have closed the survey for now, since we are going to revamp it before […]
Placenta Survey closed temporarily
Thanks to everyone who participated in the first round of the Placenta Survey! We had wonderful data to present at the American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting in New Orleans this past Thursday. I have temporarily closed the survey so we can edit some of the questions and add some things we would really like […]
Placenta Research Survey
Calling all placenta-eaters! Here is an opportunity to contribute to research being done out of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). We need your input! This data is going to be very important in determining whether or not placentophagy is beneficial to postpartum women. Take the survey now The official recruitment letter: Greetings, This […]
