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The Placenta

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What you’ll do

Join physicist Jana Hutter to learn about one of our most poorly understood organs. The placenta is a vital but constantly changing organ that is difficult to study. Hutter has created a new non-invasive tool that enables us to visualise the placenta while it’s still inside the mother’s body and gain new insight into human biology.

Dates

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Need to know

Location

We’ll be in the Forum. To get there, take the lift or stairs up to level 1 and then follow the signs through the ‘Being Human’ gallery.

Speech-to-text

This event will be live-transcribed. The captions will be displayed on a screen in-venue.

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About your speaker

Colour photograph of Jana Hutter

Jana Hutter

Jana Hutter is a physicist working at the Centre for the Developing Brain at King’s College London on novel imaging techniques to study babies’ development before and just after birth.