The placenta may be, as the NIH claims, the “least understood human organ.” But there are research inroads being made. One of them is the Human Placenta Project, a $42 million NIH research effort.

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MRIs can provide higher resolution, but the placenta's 3D structure can make the scans difficult to interpret. To bring MRIs into pregnancy monitoring, MIT uses algorithms to chart the placenta ...