<story><title>An artificial womb successfully grew baby sheep</title><url>http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/25/15421734/artificial-womb-fetus-biobag-uterus-lamb-sheep-birth-premie-preterm-infant</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gadders</author><text>And also hopefully reduce the need for abortion. Women would be able to &amp;quot;donate&amp;quot; the foetus to be raised in one of these bags and then adopted.&lt;p&gt;(Eventually, I realise this technology is not there yet).</text></item><item><author>gliese1337</author><text>The original source, with the actual science: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nature.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;ncomms15112&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nature.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;ncomms15112&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not quite a total replacement for a natural womb (and the Nature article only uses the word &amp;quot;womb &lt;i&gt;once&lt;/i&gt;, in the abstract), as it can&amp;#x27;t grow a fetus from an embryo; you have to start with a pre-incubated fetus that already has an umbilical ford to plug into and a strong enough heart. But even though we won&amp;#x27;t be growing test-tube babies 100% in-vitro with this thing, it is a major advance that could significantly push back the earliest time at which a premature baby could remain viable with artificial incubation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>upvotinglurker</author><text>The science fiction author Lois McMaster Bujold has this technology in her &amp;quot;Vorkosigan universe&amp;quot; books, depicted as sufficiently advanced that it is safer for the fetus than natural pregnancy. She presents such technology, should it exist, as a moral imperative for the health and safety of both the mother and the child in wanted pregnancies, as well as an alternative to abortion.</text></comment>
<story><title>An artificial womb successfully grew baby sheep</title><url>http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/25/15421734/artificial-womb-fetus-biobag-uterus-lamb-sheep-birth-premie-preterm-infant</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gadders</author><text>And also hopefully reduce the need for abortion. Women would be able to &amp;quot;donate&amp;quot; the foetus to be raised in one of these bags and then adopted.&lt;p&gt;(Eventually, I realise this technology is not there yet).</text></item><item><author>gliese1337</author><text>The original source, with the actual science: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nature.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;ncomms15112&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nature.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;ncomms15112&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not quite a total replacement for a natural womb (and the Nature article only uses the word &amp;quot;womb &lt;i&gt;once&lt;/i&gt;, in the abstract), as it can&amp;#x27;t grow a fetus from an embryo; you have to start with a pre-incubated fetus that already has an umbilical ford to plug into and a strong enough heart. But even though we won&amp;#x27;t be growing test-tube babies 100% in-vitro with this thing, it is a major advance that could significantly push back the earliest time at which a premature baby could remain viable with artificial incubation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fdsfsafasfdas</author><text>...because adoption is such a riotous success these days?</text></comment>