A Netherlands-based startup, Aqua Womb, is exploring the potential of making a womb-like life support system for extremely premature infants. The objective is to advance the care of premature newborns through the development of a clinical-grade artificial womb, also known as a liquid-filled incubator. Babies born between 22 and 24 weeks face huge risks. They currently have a low chance …
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Beth Schafer lay in a hospital bed, bracing for the birth of her son. The first contractions rippled through her body before she felt remotely ready. She knew, with a mother’s pit-of-the-stomach intuition, that her baby was not ready either. At just 23 weeks of gestation, her son teetered on the cliff edge of viability, the fragile threshold where modern …
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Immune cells in the human brain may be critical to orchestrating the organ’s development in the womb because they trigger a dramatic increase in an important type of nerve cell, new research suggests. Estimates suggest that these key cells, known as inhibitory interneurons, make up some 25% to 50% of the neurons in the adult cortex, the wrinkled tissue that …
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