The U.S. National Institutes of Health has earmarked $41.5 million in funding for the Human Placenta Project which will focus on developing technologies to better study and monitor the placenta during pregnancy in real time.
A pregnancy-related program just secured a large amount of federal funding.
The National Institutes of Health has announced that it will grant $41.5 million to the Human Placenta Project which aims to develop technologies to study the placenta as it grows and changes over the course of a pregnancy.
The placenta is a vital organ that carries oxygen and nutrients from the mother to the fetus, produces necessary hormones, and helps to eliminate waste.
“The placenta services the lung, the kidney