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  • An artificial placenta to increase survival of the most premature babies
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    An artificial placenta to increase survival of the most premature babies

    Every year, 28,000 premature babies are born in Spain, 800 of them extremely premature with a higher risk of suffering complications or not surviving. BCNatal, which integrates functionally the Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Obstetrics Departments of ...

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  • The CaixaResearch Artificial Placenta project achieves foetal survival of 12 days in good health
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    The CaixaResearch Artificial Placenta project achieves foetal survival of 12 days in good health

    Over the first two and a half years of the project, the CaixaResearch Artificial Placenta scientific team developed a prototype of a functional artificial placenta with 12-day survival with good foetal health in an animal model, demonstrating that ...

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  • Mediterranean diet or mindfulness during pregnancy reduces by one third the risk of a low birth weight baby
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    Mediterranean diet or mindfulness during pregnancy reduces by one third the risk of a low birth weight baby

    A clinical trial for pregnant women at high risk of a low birth weight baby demonstrates for the first time that Mediterranean diet or mindfulness-based stress reduction interventions during pregnancy reduce the prevalence of low birth weight by ...

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