This video was captured five days after this premature lamb was placed into the artificial womb. The video shows the typical activity and appearance of a developmentally equivalent (107 day gestation) ...

Pediatric researchers in Philadelphia have developed a system mimicking the environment in a mother’s womb that could provide new hope for survival and illness prevention in premature babies. The ...

For the first time, scientists have demonstrated an artificial womb that was able to successfully support fetal lambs at a developmental stage roughly equivalent to a 23-week-old human fetus. The ...

A unique womb-like device could reduce mortality and disability for extremely premature babies .. Courtesy Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Today, when a baby is born prematurely, doctors typically ...

Lambs have been successfully gestated in ‘artificial wombs’ outside of their mothers, using new technology that will be tried in humans soon. Above, a preemie at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; ...

Researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia developed a plastic bags that keeps a lamb fetus, born anytime before 28 weeks even as early as 22 or 23 weeks, to continuously grow and develop.

An artificial womb that could someday sustain extremely prematurely born infants has managed to keep baby sheep alive for four weeks. The womb, called a “biobag,” is a plastic bag filled with fluid to ...