placenta

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"This finding also reinforces our commitment to developing antidepressants that do not reach the placenta -- a focus of many of our studies right now."

From Science Daily • Mar. 17, 2026

"It was the knitting needle I brought back from my parents' house. It was also that when I finally miscarried, I didn't know that there would be a placenta to pass."

From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025

Although scientists once believed that the placenta was a tight, impermeable barrier separating mother and child, that’s not true.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025

As tradition dictated, her placenta was hurled into the Huangpu River; when it floated away, it was deemed that she too “would be raised and fed, only to drift away.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2025

In experimental animals the chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticides freely cross the barrier of the placenta, the traditional protective shield between the embryo and harmful substances in the mother’s body.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson