Tag: foetus

In a first of its kind, surgeons successfully repaired a major malformation in the brain of a foetus. The surgeons from Boston Children's Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital in the US used a surgical technique called embolization to treat a rare prenatal condition. Called vein of Galen Malformation, the vascular abnormality permits blood to flow dangerously fast through part of the brain after the child is born.

  Lungs and Placentas of the foetus kin womb (11 weeks after conception) already reveal bacterial microbiome signature, which shows that bacteria may have colonised...