A teratogen is anything an individual is exposed to during pregnancy that causes an anomaly or malformation in the fetus. A teratogen can be a drug, chemical, substance, virus, or many other things.

A teratogen is an environmental factor that a person is exposed to during their pregnancy that may affect the baby’s development, resulting in birth defects. In fact, around 4% to 5% of birth defects ...

Teratology is the study of the causes and biological processes leading to abnormal development and birth defects and of the appropriate measures for prevention. Although genetics and other branches of ...

ISBN-10:080189784X; ISBN-13: 978-0801897849 The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2010 576 pp, RRP: $270/£140 This is not one of those books to read from cover to cover. It is a serious ...

Medications that can cause birth defects are collectively called teratogens, and new research shows that when young women are prescribed these drugs, they are often not counseled about the potential ...

The Zika virus has spread rapidly in the Americas since its first identification in Brazil in early 2015. Prenatal Zika virus infection has been linked to adverse pregnancy and birth outcomes, most ...

Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) say that they have created nano-scale carbon tubes that can act like a sensor to detect cancer drugs and other DNA-damaging agents inside ...