in utero surgery

noun

surgery performed on a fetus while it is in the womb.

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“What’s disappointing to me is that this unregulated stuff really does give serious stem cell work, which could be lifesaving and life-changing to people, a bad name,” says Diana Farmer, a fetal surgeon at UC Davis who is running a clinical trial using placental stem cells to improve outcomes in in utero surgery to correct spina bifida.