In case you missed it: thePrenatal Diagnosiseditors bring you the most significant advances of 2016

Ectogenesis: understanding opportunities, implications, concerns, and ways forward

“…Artificial womb technology can be explored further to improve the current standards of newborn care and reduce the mortality and morbidity rate among extremely premature babies who cannot live with the present newborn intensive care [27] . Application of full ectogenesis in real life could pave the way for fetal therapy and surgical procedures in an extrauterine womb, minimizing the risks of womb rupture, and complications for the pregnant mother [28] .…”

Right or wrong? Looking through the retrospectoscope to analyse predictions made a decade ago in prenatal diagnosis and fetal surgery

“…At this meeting we discuss the key progress made in the specialties of prenatal diagnosis and fetal therapy and begin to put together our traditional end of year publication "In Case You Missed It" to keep you up to date with developments in our field. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] We take turns to host the editors' meeting and have met in Washington, Leuven, Boston, London and Hertfordshire. This year, however, was different in more ways than one!…”

“…Usually, around mid‐October, the Associate Editors of Prenatal Diagnosis meet to make plans for the year to come and reflect on the year just gone. At this meeting we discuss the key progress made in the specialties of prenatal diagnosis and fetal therapy and begin to put together our traditional end of year publication “In Case You Missed It” to keep you up to date with developments in our field 1‐7 . We take turns to host the editors' meeting and have met in Washington, Leuven, Boston, London and Hertfordshire.…”

In case you missed it: The prenatal diagnosis editors bring you the most significant advances of 2018

“…At present, human applications of fetal gene therapy have not been published, but just before the submission of this editorial, a Chinese researcher claimed to have modified the genome of a set of twin embryos using the CRISPR/Cas9 approach . Gene editing was one of the promising methodologic advances we discussed in this editorial 2 years ago . Dr He attempted to induce resistance to the human immunodeficiency virus by removing the CCR5 gene in the offspring of sero‐discordant couples.…”