Targeting the Placenta: Gene Therapy as a new treatment for fetal growth restriction: Conversation with Dr. Helen Jones, Part 2

 The very first construction project in pregnancy is the placenta. It's critical to the embryo's development, and problems with the placenta can have significant consequences for the baby. Since doctors have been able to identify fetal growth restriction in the course of pregnancy--which started in about the 1970s-- the medical response has been to prescribe bedrest and or early delivery.

In the second half of my conversation with Dr. Helen Jones, we talk about how this response to fetal growth restriction may give way to new gene therapy that can fix the placenta during pregnancy.