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5 Things We Bet You Didn’t Know about the Placenta
The placenta does a whole lot more than just ferry oxygen and nutrients to the fetus and take away wastes and carbon dioxide
Stories by Susan J. Fisher
Susan J. Fisher is a professor in the department of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the U.C. San Francisco School of Medicine. Her laboratory explores placenta formation in normal human pregnancy and how flaws in the process contribute to complications. Credit: Nick Higgins
