To perform surgeries on fetuses during pregnancy, the fetal membrane surrounding the fetus needs to be perforated. This often leads to membrane rupture days or weeks after the surgery, resulting in preterm birth. There is no clinical solution to prevent this to happen, which makes membrane rupture the Achille's heel of prenatal surgeries.
Our technology is an implantable device that will prevent membrane rupture and unleash the potential of in-utero surgeries.