A team of engineers and pediatric surgeons led by Rice University’s Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies has developed a cost-effective treatment for infants born with gastroschisis, a congenital condition in which intestines and other organs are developed outside of the body. The condition can be life-threatening in economically disadvantaged regions without access to equipment. The Rice-developed device, known as SimpleSilo, is “simple, low-cost and locally manufacturable,...
