Since the 2013 Nobel Prize was awarded for the discovery of vesicle trafficking, a subgroup
of nanovesicles called exosomes has been driving the research field to a new regime for …

The relative contribution of genetic and environmental influences to the US black‐white
disparity in cardiovascular disease (CVD) is hotly debated within the public health …

The mechanisms involved in human pregnancy maintenance and parturition are highly
complex and involve mother, fetus and placenta. The “final common pathway” to delivery is …

Environments experienced by organisms during early development shape the character and
timing of developmental processes, leading to different probabilities of survival in the …

Surfactant proteins SP-A and SP-D are hydrophilic, collagen-containing calcium-dependent
lectins, which appear to have a range of innate immune functions at pulmonary as well as …

Preterm birth (PTB;< 37 weeks of gestation) impacts∼ 11% of all pregnancies and
contributes to 1 million neonatal deaths worldwide annually. An understanding of the feto …

An adverse early-life environment is associated with long-term disease consequences.
Adversity early in life is hypothesized to elicit developmental adaptations that serve to …

At term, the signals of fetal maturity and feto-placental tissue aging prompt uterine readiness
for delivery by transitioning quiescent myometrium to an active stage. It is still unclear how …

Endocrine factors and signals of fetal organ maturation are reported determinants of birth
timing. To test the hypothesis that paracrine signaling by exosomes are key regulators of …

The environment experienced by developing organisms can shape the timing and character
of developmental processes, generating different phenotypes from the same genotype, each …