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Five Blood Transfusions, One Bone Marrow Transplant – All Before Birth (NYT)

Photo of mother by baby
Photo credit: Bryan Meltz for The New York Times

The general goal of fetal therapy is to act early enough to minimize or even prevent lasting harm from severe problems that start in the womb. With a bone-marrow transplant, the added advantage of giving it before birth is that the fetal immune system is not yet fully developed, so it is unlikely to reject the transplant.  Full article (New York Times).