(SACRAMENTO) A UC Davis Health research team has safely performed the world’s first spina bifida treatment combining fetal surgery with stem cells, according to results from Phase 1 of an ongoing clinical trial. These results have been published today in The Lancet. The study, called “Feasibility and Safety of Cellular Therapy for In-Utero Repair of Myelomeningocele (CuRe Trial): a First-In-Human, Phase 1, Single-Arm Study," tested whether adding a layer of human placenta-derived stem cells to s...