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Emily Hayes

Contributing writer

Emily Hayes is a freelance journalist based in the California Bay Area. She has more than 25 years of experience writing about medicine across therapeutic areas for health-care professionals and investors. Among other trade publications, she has written for the pharmaceutical news titles Pink Sheet and Scrip.

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Methods

Atlas charts cells of human placenta, uterus across early pregnancy

By Emily Hayes
27 July 2023 | 4 min read

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