48 July 25 • 2019
jn

health | Israel’
s role

Artifi
 cially Made Womb Might Help Grow Embryos

A team of bioengineers and gynecologists at Tel Aviv University say that by bio-
engineering cells, they have created a model of the human uterine wall where 
they hope embryos will be able to attach and grow. The discovery would be a 
step toward growing embryos in an artificially made biological womb model, the 
researchers said.
If implantation occurs as hoped, it would allow the embryos to 
develop in a biological environment rather than in the artificial 
environment of a petri dish and incubator, which are used today to 
incubate early embryos during in vitro fertilization.
Developing in a biological environment is expected to yield “bet-
ter results” for the embryos’
 growth and survival, Elad explained.
In their work, they took endometrial and smooth muscle cells 
from the uterus and co-cultured them in layers in the lab, subject-
ing them as well to hormonal manipulation. Through their engineering of the 
cells, they managed to create a “model that represents a receptive uterus,
” which 
would be able, in theory, to be fertile ground for a newly fertilized egg to implant 
and develop, said Elad.
Their research has been sent to medical and scientific journals for review, he 
said.
Elad said he believes the Tel Aviv University study marks a “first time the ana-
tomical architecture of the human uterus has been tissue engineered” and is an 
important step forward in gaining insight into the creation of early human life.

Prof. David Elad 

COURTESY TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY

A team of Israeli scientists from the 
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology 
in Haifa have developed a machine 
learning-based thermal sensor that 
could help prevent parents from forget-
ting their babies and toddlers in cars, 
which can lead to vehicular heatstroke, 
hyperthermia and even death, reports 
the Jerusalem Post.
According to the safety organiza-
tion Kids and Cars, an average of 37 
American children die each year in hot 
cars. These include instances where a 
child has been forgotten in a car, acci-
dentally locks themselves in a car or 
trunk or, in a small number of cases, 
when a child has been intentionally left 
in a car. 
The new system was created by 
Technion undergraduate students 
Adam Barhak and Assaf Yitzhak, 
under the guidance of doctoral stu-
dent Ayal Taitler and master’
s degree 
student Dotan Shambi. It is based on a 
relatively simple and inexpensive ther-
mal sensor installed opposite the baby 

seat in the back of the 
vehicle. The sensor pro-
duces an image of the 
child and transfers the 
data to a tiny computer, 
which processes the information and 
issues an alert. 
According to a release shared by 
the Technion, the system activates a 
sequence of alarms in a closed loop 
that expands according to time passed 
and the temperature of the vehicle. 
First, a warning light is turned on, 
followed by a warning beep, and if 
necessary, notification by text messages 
to an expanding loop of people who 
could remotely open the car doors and 
windows. 
The solution comes at the right time 
of year. According to noheatstroke.
org, 809 children have died due to 
Pediatric Vehicular Heatstroke (PVH) 
since 1998. At least 90 percent of 
reported childhood hot-car deaths in 
the U.S. occurred between April and 
September. 

Israeli Researchers Find Way to 
Prevent Leaving Babies in Cars

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