Scientists Have Created Artificial Mini-placentas in the Lab

More than 800 women die every day from complications during pregnancy and childbirth. Part of the reason for this is that scientists still don't well understand how the placenta works, including how it is implanted into the uterus during a pregnancy.Now, researchers from the University of Cambridge have created mini-placentas that grow in a dish. The advance provides researchers the ability to study how the placenta works in the lab, with the goal of understanding it better and finding o