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Acquired infection during pregnancy and the placental breach, is at the core of the most devastating consequences of toxoplasmosis. <jats:italic>T. gondii<\/jats:italic> can severely impact the pregnancy\u2019s outcome causing miscarriages, stillbirths, premature births, babies with hydrocephalus, microcephaly or intellectual disability, and other later onset neurological, ophthalmological or auditory diseases. To tackle <jats:italic>T. gondii\u2019s<\/jats:italic> vertical transmission, it is important to understand the mechanisms underlying host-parasite interactions at the maternal-fetal interface. Nonetheless, the complexity of the human placenta and the ethical concerns associated with its study, have narrowed the modeling of parasite vertical transmission to animal models, encompassing several unavoidable experimental limitations. Some of these difficulties have been overcome by the development of different human cell lines and a variety of primary cultures obtained from human placentas. These cellular models, though extremely valuable, have limited ability to recreate what happens <jats:italic>in vivo<\/jats:italic>. During the last decades, the development of new biomaterials and the increase in stem cell knowledge have led to the generation of more physiologically relevant <jats:italic>in vitro<\/jats:italic> models. These cell cultures incorporate new dimensions and cellular diversity, emerging as promising tools for unraveling the poorly understood <jats:italic>T. gondii<\/jats:italic>\u00b4s infection mechanisms during pregnancy. 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