For decades, scientists have struggled to study this moment in humans because of ethical restrictions and limited access to ...

When it’s time to bring new life into the world, the human body transforms itself in remarkable ways. The immune system, which usually fights off anything that reads as foreign, learns to chill out so ...

Robots can do a lot these days. Cleaning houses, building machines, helping doctors in surgery, and now, a scientist based out of China is working on a robot that can carry a human fetus to term. The ...

During pregnancy, the body goes through a remarkable transformation, so it should come as no surprise that the brain does too. However, the extent of these changes has not been well studied. Now, in ...

For the first time, scientists have mapped the metabolic changes that different parts of the body go through during a primate’s pregnancy. The results suggest that pregnancy-related conditions such as ...

What if robots could give birth? That future is closer than you think. In a bold announcement at the 2025 World Robot Conference in Beijing, Dr. Zhang Qifeng, founder of Kaiwa Technology, unveiled ...

Pregnancy is an astounding feat of nature — yet the most remarkable changes aren’t even visible to the human eye, but take place within the body’s cells. During pregnancy, the body’s metabolic ...