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Premature babies have improved odds in artificial uterus

Wednesday, 6 October 2021
Researchers of TU Eindhoven launch spin-off Juno to bring an artificial uterus for premature babies to the market.

β€œAn artificial uterus – the incubator 2.0 – will become a reality within 10 years,” says Jasmijn Kok, one of the founders of the spin-off Juno. Together with researchers from the department of Industrial Design from the Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, including her twin sister Lyla Kok, she wants to bring a technology that increases the chances of survival of extremely premature babies to the market. β€œIt’s not science fiction.”

What once started as a wild idea, a moon shot, is now taking shape, co-founder Myrthe van der Ven continues. At congresses in Japan in the 1970s, gynecologist Guid Oei first saw initial ideas for accommodating extremely premature babies not in an incubator, but underwater in an artificial uterus.