Are artificial wombs the future?

That could be useful for burn victims. If we could get them into an environment were cell generation is possible, it would be ground breaking.

This is an alternative to incubators, not pregnancy. Growing a zygote into a fetus is a completely different problem than transferring a fetus to artificial life support.

My concern is that with the tech like this we might be moving too far from how human biology and evolution were designed to work. Premature delivery doesn't occur for no reason, and most of the time the cause is genetic. If we allow propogation of such genes in population it might some day render our species unable to reproduslce without auxiliary tech, putting our very existence in the hands of those who control access to it

I'd rather this over commercial surrogacy any day.

I don't think it will take a decade to get developed. Technology is running at the speed of light nowadays. I think this could be achieved in the near future. The issue is if the technology falls in the hands of people that do not hace the same altruistic desires as these scientists.

Bless that woman. She lost her baby and did everything she could to help babies and families in the future. That is truly inspiring ❤ I’m 39 weeks today and I can’t imagine the pain the loss would be from losing a baby at 25 weeks.

If the goal is to save children, it can also benefit those whose reproductive system issues that prevent them from having children so having children FULLY grown in artificial wombs also protects the lives of children and MOTHERS from complications and death.

I imagine that in the far future traditional biological ways to have children will be seen as archaic. At that point there will definitely be advertised babies

As common in these sections, people mostly cheer without a thought to the consequences once the tech is not used to nurture premature babies but celebrate the idea of designed humanity, eugenics in new clothes. people prefer to live in their bubbles, unconcerned how fragile it is and when it burst we will hear the same cries. why did nobody see it coming, the things experts warned about, instead people will follow some crank promising that nothing was ever their fault, absolve them of their responsibility. which is easy as resisting the wall is tedious and most will everybody attack you as you radically attack the very cushy condition their life is build upon

I would support babies being artificially grown from start to finish if the technology became possible. While it is rewarding to feel the baby grow inside, I think a lot of people forget how many mothers and infants have died before us. Evolution selects what works generally without consideration for casualties.

Long term this is also going to be important for - Single Male Surrogacy: Men having sons without a (human) spouse, using a nanny or robot wife - solving the demographic crisis in the developed world by making it easier to have babies - and very long term it's also the best way to let humans spread throughout the universe. Send robots, external artificial wombs and deep frozen embryos.

Amazing work and the insights being garnered will be priceless in the neonatal physiology. Looking forward to more updates on your progress.

It always start from the positive side n ends on the negative side

I'm worried that this would affect the baby's mental development. After all a lab is etirely different from the mother. The whirring of machines instead the sound of the mother going on through life. Even birds cheep at their chicks before they hatch.

I would love to see it. Just imagine bearing two children while I have an autoimmune disease

I thought they were building a machine where you can grow a fertilized egg into a full baby. This is more like a liquid incubator.

next step make them born as 18 year olds ready to go to the military ☺

First they tell us this planet is overpopulated and now they are worried millions die every day 😂😂😂

I thought this is about creating babys just with genetic material without burdening the woman. Imagine you can choose from various attributes, gender, skin/hair-color, height, .... and then pick him/her up after 9 months like an order.

Possible? Likely Ethical? Probably never, we just create more problems for ourselves.