Lab-grown "bodyoids" could transform medical research and organ transplants, but raise ethical questions about defining human ...

It may be disturbing to characterize human bodies in such commodifying terms, but the unavoidable reality is that human ...

While in vitro fertilization (IVF) enables conception outside the womb, the embryo grows inside the woman to full term. In contrast, an artificial womb is like an artificial uterus, enabling the ...

Researchers at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have created an artificial womb. Inside of the womb, they placed a premature lamb fetus. They then kept the fetus in the womb for four ...

Although people-growing is probably a long way off, mice can now mostly develop inside an artificial uterus (try private window if you hit a paywall) thanks to a breakthrough in developmental biology.

Doctors in Britain are hailing as an amazing medical achievement the first birth of a child in the country from a woman who ...

Katherine Don at The Atlantic recently laid out the significant technical problems any attempt to develop an artificial uterus would face. 1. We actually don't know that much about the placenta.

Elon Musk has announced that 3D printing will be the key to populating Mars in the next 10 years, we took a look at the plan.

An artificial womb aims to replicate all these processes mechanically, keeping the baby suspended in a bag filled with ...

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