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Maternal immunisation against Group B Streptococcus

Background

Group B Streptococcus (GBS) can cause invasive disease (iGBS) in young infants, typically presenting as sepsis or meningitis, and is also associated with stillbirth and preterm birth. GBS vaccines are under...
Published by: PLoS Medicine
Primitive haematopoiesis in the human placenta gives rise to macrophages with epigenetically silenced HLA-DR.
The earliest macrophages are generated during embryonic development from erythro-myeloid progenitors (EMPs) via primitive haematopoiesis. Although this process is thought to be spatially restricted to the yolk sac in the mouse...
Published by: Nature Communications