Giving premature babies better chances in life

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Project leaders Iwan Schie, Patrick Bräutigam and Hans Proquitté (from left) beh
Project leaders Iwan Schie, Patrick Bräutigam and Hans Proquitté (from left) behind an incubator. Image: Jens Meyer (University of Jena)

In Germany, doctors have to feed some 200 out of 800 very premature babies every year - mostly due to an infection - by diverting stool out of the body through an artificial intestinal stoma and returning the intestinal contents (chyme) at another stoma, in order to relieve the intestine. ...

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