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05-05-2021
A remarkable type of surgery is exposing the truth that unborn babies are still babies, even when they re three or four months away from being born.
Expectant parents in the United Kingdom have been an eyewitness to the miracle of life as their unborn babies have been spared from paralysis or worse by having surgery for spina bifida, long before they re born.
Live Science reports that this breakthrough procedure has been performed on 32 babies with spina bifida since January 2020.
Spina bifida is a birth defect that occurs when a baby s backbone does not form normally.
NHS England revealed that performing the operation on babies between 23 and 26 weeks of pregnancy, rather than after birth, has a greater effect on healing the child.
Treating Fetus as Patient Can Reduce Preterm Birth by Anjanee Sharma on January 23, 2021 at 5:42 PM Texas-based researchers pave the way for developing a new medicine delivery system that could reduce the incidence of preterm labor and premature birth by treating the fetus as the patient.
Preterm labor is suspected to be triggered by inflammation caused by the fetus being sick. Researchers have proven this hypothesis by studying assumptions about the relationship between a mother and the fetus s health.
Dr. Ramkumar Menon and his team tested bioengineered exosomes as a delivery system for anti-inflammatory medicine directly to the fetus. Exosomes are natural nanoparticles or vesicles in our bodies, and we have trillions of them circulating through us at all times. By packaging the medicine inside a bioengineered exosome and injecting it into the mother intravenously, the exosomes travel through the blood system, cross the placental barrier and arr
Estrogen Receptors in Mom’s Placenta Critical During Viral Infection
Researchers at Duke and Mt. Sinai have identified a molecular mechanism that prevents a viral infection during a mother’s pregnancy from harming her unborn baby.
When a person becomes infected by a virus, their immune system sends out a chemical signal called type I interferon, which tells surrounding cells to increase their anti-viral defenses, including making more inflammation.
This response helps to prevent the virus from copying itself and gives the adaptive immune system more time to learn about the new invader and begin to hunt it down.
A pregnant woman who encounters a virus generates these same signals to protect herself, but if those signaling molecules and the resulting inflammation were able to cross the placenta and reach the fetus, they would lead to serious developmental abnormalities and even fetal death.
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