{"id":927912,"date":"2026-08-18T07:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/scientists-find-missing-piece-in-folic-acids-role-in-pregnancy\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T07:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:18:16","slug":"scientists-find-missing-piece-in-folic-acids-role-in-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/scientists-find-missing-piece-in-folic-acids-role-in-pregnancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Find Missing Piece in Folic Acid\u2019s Role in Pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa have identified a molecular pathway that may explain how folic acid (vitamin B9) helps prevent neural tube defects, linking the vitamin to a key developmental signal made from vitamin A.<br \/>\nThe post Scientists Find Missing Piece in Folic Acid\u2019s Role in Pregnancy appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\/medicine\/pregnancy-folic-acid-14997.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>News Staff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa have identified a molecular pathway that may explain how folic acid (vitamin B9) helps prevent neural tube defects, linking the vitamin to a key developmental signal made from vitamin A. The post Scientists Find Missing Piece in Folic Acid\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":927913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3402,536,3807],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-927912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-missing","category-science-nature","category-scientists"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}