@NKTotalitarian
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@mamadragonful
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.
@Yobabywhatscrackin
I'm a firm believer that at some secret military base they have already been doing this for years...
@AmieEss
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.
@FastSnail220v
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
@Agapimo
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.
@beemarron3642
I'd rather this over commercial surrogacy any day.
@DiegoMonroyF
I know some young women that would like to have a baby but are very afraid of pregnancy itself. Artificial wombs that could carry on the later and more difficult stages of pregnancy would be a game changer for many people.
@benjaminodonnell258
Given that the human gestation and birth process is one of the most dangerous in the whole animal kingdom (among other reasons, because the human head has evolved to be almost too big for natural birth), artificial wombs make SO much sense. So much so that, if this tech becomes viable, I suspect in a few generations natural birth will be seen by most people as a form of self-harm or some kind of thrill-seeking extreme sport.
@dearcole123
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.
@NoidoDev
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.
@beeee4249
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.
@wizardleos
Amazing work and the insights being garnered will be priceless in the neonatal physiology. Looking forward to more updates on your progress.
@hvdveer
I understand that artificial wombs sound very dystopic at first, but honestly I think it would be the ultimate emancipator. Especially because female fertility drastically reduces around 40, strongly influencing life choices for women that approaching that age. And anyone that had or witnessed a birth can tell you it's a pretty brutal process. I'm personally in favour, for a small minority of people with will prove a freeing option.
@blazeace2884
Lets be honest, the goal is pure but we all know this would be the dawn of the clone army
@mikeybien
I would love to see it. Just imagine bearing two children while I have an autoimmune disease
@RichardBarclay
Artificial wombs would be one of the just important inventions of all time. They would save millions of lives.
@nocomment3294
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
@mackpunch368
Lots of young women and men struggle to trust each other now so this may be a sign of a somewhat near future for society’s reproduction, plus it could help minimize complications that would arise during biological birth?
@tony8074