Fetal Medicine: New Insight and Future Direction
A special issue of Biomedicines (ISSN 2227-9059). This special issue belongs to the section "Cell Biology and Pathology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 30
Special Issue Editors
2. College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University, NALA Dx, Phoenix, AZ, USA
Interests: plasma transcriptome; chronic fetal hypoxia; preterm birth; postgraduate training that improves patient outcomes; fetal medicine; perinatal physiology
2. College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ 85004, USA
Interests: disease mechanisms; computational and systems biology; multi-omics; resilience; protein structure, dynamics, function and interactions; genotype to phenotype mapping
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Dear Colleagues,
Our understanding of the molecular pathology of pregnancy, including perinatal and maternal health, has grown steadily with the progressive development of noninvasive tools, such as liquid biopsies using maternal blood samples that contain perinatal health information. The collection of genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics data from these samples and other samples has necessitated new statistical approaches that include machine learning and artificial intelligence to infer clinically relevant information, such as biomarker discovery. This technology revolution has been especially helpful in understanding black box disorders of pregnancy affecting both mother and fetus across the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd trimesters, which now may also be addressed by spatial transcriptomics. This Special Issue seeks manuscripts relating to the early pathology of disorders, such as spontaneous preterm birth, early-onset pre-eclampsia, fetal hypoxia, and poor growth, that are discoverable and may potentially serve as markers leading to the development of early screening tests enabling the ultimate goal of preventing rather than treating these clinical diseases.
Prof. Dr. Carl Weiner
Prof. Dr. Judith Klein-Seetharaman
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fetal medicine
- spontaneous preterm birth
- early-onset pre-eclampsia
- fetal hypoxia
- poor growth
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