When babies struggle to eat, Steve Barlow wants to do more than tickle their lips and cheeks while waiting for their jaw muscles to start working.Up to one-third of the more than 600,000 premature infants born in the United States each year have feeding problems when their brains struggle to coordinate sucking, swallowing and breathing.
Barlow, a scientist at the University of Kansas, believed he could find a high-tech way to improve the lives of these vulnerable children.
A Lenexa company called KC BioMediX soon will begin selling sophisticated medical devices based on Barlow’s research. The target market could be worth more than $1 billion.

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