Scientists have performed the world’s first stem cell therapy on unborn babies with spina bifida, and every child in the trial was born healthy. The breakthrough could change how one of America’s most ...

What if surgeons could repair a birth defect before a baby is even born? For some families facing a diagnosis of spina bifida, that possibility is now real thanks to advances in fetal surgery. Spina ...

Myelomeningocele is the most severe form of spina bifida. The spinal cord and backbone fail to close while a fetus grows, causing a sac containing parts of the spinal cord to protrude out its back.