In the animal kingdom, pregnancy rarely follows the rules, with many species being pregnant for a year or more.

I received a first-hand tutorial in whitetail deer gestation period just the other day. While hunting for morel mushrooms, I stumbled on a tiny fawn curled up in the downed top of an oak tree. I’ve ...

There’s so much public health officials are still learning about the Omicron COVID-19 variant, but one thing is certain: It spreads really quickly. Omicron now causes 99.5% of COVID-19 infections in ...

Research continues to emerge on the highly transmissible omicron variant, which went from being unknown a few short weeks ago to the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the United States this week.

Many mammals deliver in minutes after long pregnancies. See which species have the quickest births to help newborns thrive.

Scientists are still working to gather data on the Omicron variant and there is much we still don't know about it, but some have suggested that it might possibly have a shorter incubation period than ...

Despite the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic has been raging for over four months the world over, the incubation period has not been reliably estimated. A new study published on the preprint server ...

A new study published on the preprint server bioRxiv * in May 2020 provides a method to estimate the incubation period for any new pathogen, which could help to define the optimal quarantine period ...

University of Cambridge scientists say they have identified a key pathway that controls the expansion of the placental vascular tree in late gestation, demonstrating that fetus-derived signals are ...

There’s so much public health officials are still learning about the Omicron COVID-19 variant, but one thing is certain: It spreads really quickly. Omicron now causes 99.5% of COVID-19 infections in ...