What an amazing idea, pushing the boundaries of medicine...
In the table with experiment outcomes I see one lamb that survived for a while without mechanical ventilation... Was this the best outcome of the set? I couldn't make out if some of them were actually viable, and survived?
It seems there was one individual that was kept alive post-"delivery," and it got tests and imaging six months later that confirmed that it was developing normally, but that the others were terminated so they could be autopsied. The assessments of, e.g., brain morphology, require sectioning the brain and examining it under a microscope.
Sounds like the lambs were terminated immediately after coming out of the biobag, so the researchers could get a clear picture of how lung development progressed in the biobag without confounding factors coming from spending too much time in the open air.
In the table with experiment outcomes I see one lamb that survived for a while without mechanical ventilation... Was this the best outcome of the set? I couldn't make out if some of them were actually viable, and survived?