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Scientists Create Artificial Womb That Could Help Prematurely Born Babies

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This has so many implications from scientific, to medical, to religious, to ethical, to moral, to legal. If nothing else, it's amazing:

Scientists Create Artificial Womb That Could Help Prematurely Born Babies

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An illustration of a fetal lamb inside the "artificial womb" device, which mimics the conditions inside a pregnant animal.

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Scientists have created an "artificial womb" in the hopes of someday using the device to save babies born extremely prematurely.

So far the device has only been tested on fetal lambs. A study published Tuesday involving eight animals found the device appears effective at enabling very premature fetuses to develop normally for about a month.

"We've been extremely successful in replacing the conditions in the womb in our lamb model," says Alan Flake, a fetal surgeon at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia who led the study published in the journal Nature Communications.

"They've had normal growth. They've had normal lung maturation. They've had normal brain maturation. They've had normal development in every way that we can measure it," Flake says.

Flake says the group hopes to test the device on very premature human babies within three to five years.

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Beaudreaux said:
This has so many implications from scientific, to medical, to religious, to ethical, to moral, to legal. If nothing else, it's amazing:
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world dont need more lams we r overpopulated w/ those furballs
 
Beaudreaux said:
This has so many implications from scientific, to medical, to religious, to ethical, to moral, to legal. If nothing else, it's amazing:
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I argued this one in an abortion thread. Once the artificial womb is created then the whole abortion argument changes. It should still be the pregnant womens choice. But now the choice has widen to does there need to be a pregnant woman.
 
It won't be long and Kaitlyn Jenner will have that contraption surgically implanted in her whoo whoo and s(h)e'll be expecting a little lamb.
 
Can they make one grownup sized...I wanna go back in.
 
FINALLY!!! I dont need women. Operation: Hermit Bees activated. :roll:
 
Each DIY kit comes with everything you need

Complete womb unit
3 dehydrated fertilized eggs
food for nine months
growing instruction pamplet
 
Winchester said:
Sounds expensive.
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One thing I've learned in my 50+ years, is that there's nothing inexpensive about children, or medicine, or for that matter, any new technology that's fresh on the market. New tech has to pay for it's cost to develop very quickly, before it becomes old tech and is replaced by the next great thing to hit the market. Combine new tech with Medicine and Kids (which means tons of government regs and lots of lawyers looking for a lawsuit to file)? Well, that's gonna be damned expensive.
 
WCH said:
Each DIY kit comes with everything you need

Complete womb unit
3 dehydrated fertilized eggs
food for nine months
growing instruction pamplet
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The pamphlet will be in Taiwanese on the odd pages, and in Japanese on every other even page, so be careful.
 
My guess is one day, not our lifetimes, most people will use artificial wombs. Once the technology is perfected it will allow fetus to develope in a perfect environment with perfect nutrition. But well before then it will be used for medical intervention.
 
Skeptic Bob said:
My guess is one day, not our lifetimes, most people will use artificial wombs. Once the technology is perfected it will allow fetus to develope in a perfect environment with perfect nutrition. But well before then it will be used for medical intervention.
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The moral and ethical questions abound. Too many for me to list.
 
Beaudreaux said:
This has so many implications from scientific, to medical, to religious, to ethical, to moral, to legal. If nothing else, it's amazing:
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Cool! That's the kind of challenge to grow on.
 
soylentgreen said:
I argued this one in an abortion thread. Once the artificial womb is created then the whole abortion argument changes. It should still be the pregnant womens choice. But now the choice has widen to does there need to be a pregnant woman.
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Or wouldn't pregnancy be something like an unnecessary illness.

;)
 
WCH said:
Each DIY kit comes with everything you need

Complete womb unit
3 dehydrated fertilized eggs
food for nine months
growing instruction pamplet
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You could sell them in the back of comic books...along with x-ray glasses.
 
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