Analysts build up a little, yet successful technique for forestalling premature birth Kumar Jeetendra | January 14, 2021 In a study in mice and human cells, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say that they have developed a little, yet effective method for preventing premature birth. The vaginally-delivered treatment contains nanosized (billionth of a meter) particles of drugs that easily penetrate the vaginal wall to reach the uterine muscles and keep them from contracting. If …