This study by Jennifer Cohen, MD, is about an artificial womb (called EXTEND: extra-uterine environment for newborn development) used after a pre-term birth in a cohort of lambs and its effects on improving brain development by letting the brain (and other organs) mature in a womb-like environment. The study showed that the brains of the lambs that used the artificial womb (EXTEND) for 20-22 days after their pre-term birth were closer to the brain development of the late-pre-term lamb cohort. This conclusion is based on RNA sequencing data. The study adds evidence to the potential safety of EXTEND as the model continues to be explored for human clinical trial use. The work was conducted at CHOP and Duke.
Learn more about the Study: Extrauterine Support of Pre-term Lambs Achieves Similar Transcriptomic Profiling to Late Pre-term Lamb Brains