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The Fetal Treatment Center (FTC) mobile app, now available for download in the Apple app store and the Google Play store for Android devices.

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Tippi MacKenzie, MD, was featured in an article in Time Magazine discussing the Alpha-thalassemia Major (ATM) clinical trial.

UC San Francisco researchers have safely transplanted a woman’s stem cells into her growing fetus, leading to the live birth of an infant with a normally fatal fetal condition. The infant, who had been critically ill during the second-trimester of pregnancy due to alpha thalassemia, is the first patient enrolled in the world’s first clinical trial using blood stem cells transplanted prior to birth.

Five Blood Transfusions, One Bone Marrow Transplant — All Before Birth (New York Times)

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Pediatric Surgeon Tippi MacKenzie, MD was awarded $12.1 million by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to treat babies in the womb suffering from alpha thalassemia major, a blood disorder that is only detected in the last few months of pregnancy and is almost uniformly fatal.