"Previously the baby would have the repair to the defect after birth - but now that we can do the surgery in the womb, the defect is closed a lot earlier so it means there's less damage to the spine.

Vitara Biomedical has raised another $50 million and brought in a new CEO to lead its development of an artificial womb using ...

But then their local cardiologist sent the case to doctors at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) in the hopes that they could perform fetal heart surgery to save the baby’s life.

“You're basically left saying your baby is doing to die in utero ... At the same time, performing the surgery without opening the mother's womb decreases the risk of premature delivery.

But then their local cardiologist sent the case to doctors at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) in the hopes that they could perform fetal heart surgery to save the baby’s life.

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They have tried it in baby sheep and a pair of English ... He has been doing surgery on babies in the womb for spina bifida and says using stem cell patches might improve outcomes even further.