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Artificial womb grows baby sheep
Posted on 4/25/17 at 4:32 pm
Posted on 4/25/17 at 4:32 pm
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Inside what look like oversized ziplock bags strewn with tubes of blood and fluid, eight fetal lambs continued to develop — much like they would have inside their mothers. Over four weeks, their lungs and brains grew, they sprouted wool, opened their eyes, wriggled around, and learned to swallow, according to a new study that takes the first step toward an artificial womb. One day, this device could help to bring premature human babies to term outside the uterus — but right now, it has only been tested on sheep.
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Flake hopes the Biobag will improve the care options for extremely premature infants, who have “well documented, dismal outcomes,” he says. Prematurity is the leading cause of death for newborns. In the US, about 10 percent of babies are born prematurely — which means they were born before they reach 37 weeks of pregnancy. About 6 percent, or 30,000 of those births, are considered extremely premature, which means that they were born at or before the 28th week of pregnancy.
These infants require intensive support as they continue to develop outside their mothers’ bodies. The babies who survive delivery require mechanical ventilation, medications, and IVs that provide nutrition and fluids. If they make it out of the intensive care unit, many of these infants (between 20 to 50 percent of them) still suffer from a host of health conditions that arise from the stunted development of their organ systems.
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For Flake, the research continues. “I’m still blown away, whenever I’m down looking at our lambs,” he says. “I think it’s just an amazing thing to sit there and watch the fetus on this support acting like it normally acts in the womb... It’s a really awe-inspiring endeavor to be able to continue normal gestation outside of the mom.”
Posted on 4/25/17 at 4:35 pm to SlowFlowPro
So in theory, if this ever becomes a thing for humans.. Women could eventually not have to go through the physical labor of giving birth?
Posted on 4/25/17 at 4:37 pm to OweO
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So in theory, if this ever becomes a thing for humans.. Women could eventually not have to go through the physical labor of giving birth?
yes. we're getting close to Gattaca, with this and sex robots looming
Posted on 4/25/17 at 4:38 pm to SlowFlowPro
so women will be obsolete sooner rather than later
Posted on 4/25/17 at 4:39 pm to OweO
In theory, yes. But until humans can know, much less replicate all of the cells that a baby would need to survive that it receives from its mother, it's a pipe dream.
Currently they can only imagine taking a premie and giving it enough to survive and continue to grow outside the womb.
Currently they can only imagine taking a premie and giving it enough to survive and continue to grow outside the womb.
This post was edited on 4/25/17 at 4:40 pm
Posted on 4/25/17 at 4:40 pm to SlowFlowPro
Cool, my insurance policy will soon be available...
Posted on 4/25/17 at 4:40 pm to SlowFlowPro
that would make a perfect Sous Vide
This post was edited on 4/25/17 at 4:41 pm
Posted on 4/25/17 at 4:54 pm to SlowFlowPro
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we're getting close to Gattaca
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and sex robots
Posted on 4/25/17 at 4:56 pm to SlowFlowPro
First, they cloned a sheep and now they made a sheep from an artificial womb.
Can the resident bioengineer explain this? Are sheep just really easy to make or something?
Can the resident bioengineer explain this? Are sheep just really easy to make or something?
Posted on 4/25/17 at 5:12 pm to SlowFlowPro
thats gonna bae soft meet
Posted on 4/25/17 at 5:23 pm to nerd guy
The more we frick with nature, the deeper the trouble we are getting ourselves in.
Gattaca and the matrix are just around the corner.
Gattaca and the matrix are just around the corner.
This post was edited on 4/25/17 at 5:25 pm
Posted on 4/25/17 at 5:28 pm to SlowFlowPro
When I was an NICU nurse, I once dreamed we had embryos and fetuses in what looked like a fish tank.
Posted on 4/26/17 at 11:04 am to SlowFlowPro
Just saw this on The Verge. This is the coolest and most frightening thing I've ever seen.
Posted on 4/26/17 at 11:07 am to Spock's Eyebrow
also, the artificial womb does not require a "push gift" and will not throw gender reveal parties
Posted on 4/26/17 at 11:13 am to Walking the Earth
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First, they cloned a sheep
That still creeps me out. Who thought it was a good idea to leave a Scotsman alone with a sheep?
Posted on 4/26/17 at 11:20 am to nerd guy
Posted on 4/26/17 at 12:26 pm to SlowFlowPro
They're going to eventually use a Goats womb to incubate a human.
Which will bring forth the Antichrist.
Which will bring forth the Antichrist.
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