Doctors are developing an artificial womb that tries to replicate the conditions inside the mother’s body. This could save the lives of very premature babies. The technology, known as AquaWomb, is ...

At 28 weeks of pregnancy, your baby is practising life skills like blinking and switching between REM and non-REM sleep. During the third trimester, the foetus spends 90% of its time in a sleep state.

Premature birth is a leading cause of newborn deaths worldwide because tiny bodies, especially lungs and organs, are not ...

Your baby's senses start developing just weeks after conception, laying the foundation for their understanding of the world. Babies in the womb spend most of their time sleeping and may even dream ...

By engineering a system replicating the womb lining with high biological accuracy, researchers at the Babraham Institute and ...

By mimicking the maternal womb, doctors hope to extend the fetal stage of development, improving health outcomes later in ...