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    JANE CHEN

    Feb 01, 2019 3 minutes
    by Amanda Baker

    struggles to stay warm, she may depend on an incubator—a warming device—to keep her healthy. But incubators are specialized machines that can cost thousands of dollars to build. That cost makes them inaccessible for many people around the world. Jane Chen and her graduate-school classmates aimed to design an incubator that cut costs by 99 percent. But after learning that premature babies can start losing body heat within hours of being born, her team realized that even the best design couldn’t save lives if it was too far away. Traditional incubators are

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