UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Sept. 10 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news release:
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - On a sunny spring day at Penn State, Cristin Millett, professor of art in the College of Arts and Architecture's School of Visual Arts, inserted a catheter needle into the umbilical vein of a placenta.
Wearing a white lab coat and dark-rimmed protective glasses, the sculptor by trade and longtime visual arts educator, peeled apart the plastic wrapping of the two-inch long needle and skillfully inserted it into the umbilical vein - called cannulation, the process is one she has done dozens of times as part of the Ex-Utero Project, an interdisciplinary global research project situated at the intersection of art and human...