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CTR Director speaks to the Washington Press about growing a placenta in the lab and why understanding the nature of placental secretions is important for the future of our species.

8 March 2019

Loke CTR director spoke to the Washington Post about growing a mini placenta in the lab and the nature of secretions produced by the placenta. "Even in the 21th century we don't know what's in the placental secretions; we don't know the composition of them which the whole of the future of the human species depends on"...

HEART DISEASE STARTS IN THE WOMB: NEW ARTICLE BY PROFESSOR DINO GIUSSANI, Loke CTR MEMBER. Our cards may be marked even before we are born...

8 February 2019

Picture from the Boyd Collection held at the Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research. HEART DISEASE STARTS IN THE WOMB: NEW ARTICLE BY PROFESSOR DINO GIUSSANI, Loke CTR MEMBER. OUR CARDS MAY BE MARKED EVEN BEFORE WE ARE BORN... A study led by Caius Professor Dino Giussani has discovered that babies born to pregnancies...

Professor Dino Giussani published new article in PLOS Biology: heart disease risk begins in the womb.

8 February 2019

Placentas adapt to help keep babies healthy when mothers have poor diets or low oxygen during pregnancy: new study published by Dr Amanda N Sferruzzi-Perri.

21 January 2019

Placentas adapt to help keep babies healthy when mothers have poor diets or low oxygen during pregnancy Cambridge researchers have discovered the placenta regulates how much oxygen and nutrients it transports to babies during challenging pregnancies in a study using mice to model conditions in the womb. The placenta is the...

Mini placenta grown in the lab by CTR team listed by the Guardian in "The Science Stories that shook 2018".

2 January 2019

Mini placenta grown in the lab by Loke CTR team listed by the Guardian in "The Science Stories that shook 2018". See the full article in the Guardian here: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/dec/23/the-science-stories-that-shook-2018-genetics-evolution-climate-change-artificial-intelligence?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

STRATEGIC RESEARCH INITIATIVE ON REPRODUCTION- INAUGURAL EVENT- WHY REPRODUCTION MATTERS: Friday 7 December 2018, 2.30-5pm, The Pitt Building. All welcome

30 November 2018

Trophoblast organoids as a model for maternal–fetal interactions during human placentation- article by Margherita Turco and CTR team published in Nature on 28 November

29 November 2018

Trophoblast organoids as a model for maternal–fetal interactions during human placentation- article by Margherita Turco and Loke CTR team published in Nature on 28 November. The article can be found here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0753-3 The press release by the University of Cambridge can be found here...

Roser Vento-Tormo's paper showing reconstruction of the placental bed in early pregnancy from single-cell sequencing has been published in Nature this week.

16 November 2018

Roser Vento-Tormo's paper showing reconstruction of the placental bed in early pregnancy from single-cell sequencing has been published in Nature this week. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0698-6

CTR members Iva Filipovic and Francesco Colucci publish paper on uterine lymphocytes. Iva is one of the CTR funded PhD students.

7 November 2018

Shedding light on uterine lymphocytes: the power of mouse models The uterus of humans and mice is home to many immune cells, including natural killer (NK) and other innate lymphoid cells (ILCs), which may play important roles in pregnancy. The uterine mucosa dynamically adapts to both the menstrual cycle and pregnancy and...

Loke CTR manager in Channel 4 documentary on stillbirth- placental malfunction is often an important factor in such outcomes.

19 October 2018

Loke CTR manager Professor Gordon Smith took part in a Channel 4 documentary on stillbirth screened on 18 October. The aim of the documentary was to raise awareness and to underline the importance of monitoring placental functions during pregnancy as stillbirths are often linked to placental malfunctions.