Best of 2025 … so far: ‘Look, they’re getting skin!’: are we right to strive to save the world’s tiniest babies?

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  This summer, we want to bring you our top picks of the year so far on the audio Longread.

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  Today, I wanted to introduce a piece by Sophie McBain titled, Look, They're Getting Skin.

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  Are we right to save the world's tiniest babies?

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  The headline gives you a sense of the strange world we're in,

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  where medicine has gone beyond our understanding of what is possible,

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  and extremely premature babies can survive being born at 23 or even 22 weeks.

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