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

Scientists are working these days to bring back creatures from the past that either went extinct due to the environment or at ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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“We’ve developed a system that—as closely as possible—reproduces the environment of the womb and replaces the function of the placenta,” coauthor Alan Flake told reporters during an April 24 press ...

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.