Editor's Note: This piece was originally published online in the UNM BioBlog on March 6, 2018, written by Karina Dow. This is part of our project to help connect the Daily Lobo audience to more members of our community.
The natural human desire to bring new life into this world is not always so simple. When a fetus has serious medical conditions, it can be more risky to wait for after birth. Undergraduate Karina Dow discusses medical advances in a relatively new field of medicine, fetal surgery, in a recent UNM BioBlog.
Karina Dow is a senior undergraduate student in the Biology Department and is graduating in May. You can contact her at kdow@unm.edu.