do blood-building drugs help brain development in babies born prematurely? researchers randomly assigned 53 babies, born more than a month premature and weighing less than 3 pounds, to one of three groups. babies either received injections of erythropoietin (epo) three times a week, darbepoetin once a week for several weeks, or no treatment. results? babies who got the medicines scored much better by age 4 on measures of intelligence, language, and memory than the babies who received no treatment.how many different treatments were there and what principle of experimental design does that address?