{"id":3142,"date":"2005-08-30T23:22:47","date_gmt":"2005-08-30T23:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/08\/the-artificial-womb-draws-closer.html"},"modified":"2005-08-30T23:22:47","modified_gmt":"2005-08-30T23:22:47","slug":"the-artificial-womb-draws-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/08\/the-artificial-womb-draws-closer.html","title":{"rendered":"The artificial womb draws closer"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Times UK:<\/a><\/p>\n

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In 2002 Hung-Ching Liu, at Cornell University, in the United States, announced that her team had successfully grown a sample of cells from the lining of a human uterus and had used tissue engineering technologies to shape them like a womb. <\/p>\n

When a fertilised human egg was introduced into the womb, it implanted into the uterus wall as it would in a natural pregnancy. The experiment was ceased at six days\u2019 gestation, because of legal limits on human embryo experimentation. <\/p>\n

Japanese scientists brought goat foetuses to full term using so-called \u201cuterine tanks\u201d after removing them mid-pregancy from their mother\u2019s womb. <\/p>\n

In further womb research by Dr Liu\u2019s team, mouse embryos were grown nearly to term in artificial wombs but, as in the Japanese experiments, the newborn animals did not survive. <\/p>\n

Artificial wombs are not yet safe for human pregnancies. But if, as expected, the technology can one day be applied in human beings, scientific advantages may result. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A truly mixed bag: Good for preterm babies, bad for a whole host of other potentially unethical uses, not to speak of the experimentation required to get to a point of success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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