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About five years ago, if parents wanted more specific information after the biomarker test, doctors had to remove placental tissue or amniotic fluid from the womb.
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One case, at the University of California, Davis Medical Center, involved a pregnant woman at high risk of bleeding to death from a placental abnormality.
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To figure out how chromosomes of placental mammals have changed over time, researchers need to know what those early eutherians started with.
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Dr. Coyne is co-author of a recent study showing that the main placental barrier cells, resist Zika by releasing an antiviral molecule.
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First Known Use of placental
1785
Recent Examples of placental from the Web
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There are three kinds of mammals: egg-laying monotremes such as the platypus, marsupials like kangaroos and opossums, and the majority—placental, or eutherian, mammals—including humans and about 4400 other mammal species.
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First Known Use of placental
1839
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