Artificial Wombs News Today

Nextbigfuture reader, Scott Baker, has gathered excellent information about the state of artificial womb development. Scott did this in response to my

Artificial wombs are nearing human trials. But the goal is to save the littlest preemies, not replace the uterus.

Artificial womb technology (AWT) sparked a media sensation back in 2017 and, since then, has drawn much debate. Key questions include: Is the artificial womb inhabitant a fetus? What status does it have? And what are the pro and cons of this new technology?

By 2021, artificial womb technology had advanced to the point of growing mouse embryos from conception to the 11-to-12-day stage, about half their gestational length. They acknowledge that this sets the stage for other species and that humans could be next.

A viral video promoting the potential future of artificial womb technology that would allow parents to gene edit their babies as they grow inside a portable incubator is cause for concern, according to bioethicists. 

There is nothing quite like the online phenomenon of high-profile people wading into topics they know little about and proposing solutions that make absolutely no sense. exhibit a, the new debate over artificial wombs. this all started with a forlorn elon musk fretting over the coming collapse of earths population. fellow thinkers chimed in, artificial wombs, a very tech solution to the 300,000-year-old human tradition of giving birth then this gem of a tweet from a 27-year-old co-founder saying...

The AI system to care for embryos in artificial wombs seems to be a last-gasp attempt to boost population levels.