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We're fairly close to an artificial womb https://www.bbc.com/news/av/health-50056405 https://www.bbc.com/news/av/health-50056405 https://www.technologyreview.

• runsWphotons 3y ago
  The first one is for a better incubator for premature babies. The second is in mice and doesnt sound particularly close, as they still required pregnant mice and the embryos die after a certain point because of lack of placenta. Neither of these seems very close to replacing the need for women, but maybe will be closer after 10 more years?
  • lettergram 3y ago
    In 2017 they were growing sheep in one for 4 months https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15112 https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15112 I think it’s relatively close, sure maybe 10 years, I’m not sure exactly. My point, was that this technology is going down this path and theoretically, pretty dangerous