Are artificial wombs the future?
Scientists are hoping to build the world’s first clinically approved artificial womb. The purpose is to save the lives of more premature babies.
00:00 The dangers of premature birth
01:49 How to build an artificial womb
04:17 How does it work?
05:54 When will artificial wombs be rolled out?
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That could be useful for burn victims. If we could get them into an environment were cell generation is possible, it would be ground breaking.
What is being described, here, is *The Wet NICU* . *Dr Flake at CHOP* needs mention, here...
@tony8074 . Upscaling this technology, to Adult Size, seems a logical extension into a novel use...
Imagine you go in and it makes u old bruh😭😭🙏🙏
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.
It may also become an alternative to pregnancy, probably will.
@@whitewolf1061From a technical standpoint this is NOT an alternative to pregnancy. It's providing artificial life support to a fetus, with a developed umbilical cord and placenta. A zygote cannot implant in this, thus cannot grow to maturity.
@@mamadragonful in the future, the technology will likely advance to the point this becomes an alternative to pregnancy.
Probably next century artificial wombs would be an alternative for pregnancy in their time. New generations can adapt to this than the current generation. Pregnancy is not an easy task for every women. Artificial wombs can save mothers who are vulnerable to maternal mortality.
@@whitewolf1061 PROVE that.
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
That's a similar argument than the claim that e.g. dumb people or ones with damaged genes having children might cause problems. This has been refuted, as much as I'm informed. It takes about 5-10k years to have an effect on the human gene pool, and till then we can fix the genes anyways.
That is the point
Bro that’s the exact point. These globalists know what they’re doing. Exactly like the movie “The Matrix”
It occurs for many more reasons then genetic problems, usually genetic issues lead to miscarriage. And remember that we are also in the verge of genetic design and tecnology always get popular and acessible over time.
But that's already true for c-sections.
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.
Dajjal will be born of artificiality.😢😢
Plenty of mothers hate their babies because they had so much pain artificial babies will help mother to love more their babies
People hate children because it interferes with the modern party and hanging out lifestyle. So nah this technology won't solve anything, and for saying mothers will love the babies more because they never carried them look at all the man who hate their children yet they never carried them.
I imagine a lot of single people are going to use donor DNA to raise their own children
This will distroy human evolution hummans die because of nature , no body shall distroy nature not even girls
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.
I guess you meant to say ''have'' instead of ''hace''.
@@danielmacnair7262 you seem like a very intelligent person. I think you understood my point.
@@beeee4249 you are right! FDA has already met with scientists to discuss human trials
They said exactly this back in the 80s also. Nothing is new now. And it will all take much much longer than we expect. My prediction: Another 50-60 years or so.
@@jimj2683 but in the 80s we did not have the technology that we have today. In the 80s AI was science fiction too...
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.
@@Younglandoo It could give everyone more freedom (not just men), but I'm curious what you meant.
@@Younglandoo So, when I picture the freedom it would give women and children, I mean mostly that it would reduce or eliminate maternal mortality due to complications from pregnancy. Men naturally don't have that risk. As for men behaving themselves, they would have to man up and assume responsibility for their actions like the rest of us, but they could also rest easy knowing their female loved ones and children would be safer. I think we basically disagree about why this would help everyone, so I'm going to leave it at that.
Not possible. A human blastocyst has never successfully implanted and grown anywhere other than the living endometrial lining of a human female. At best, this technology can't be used until the placenta and umbilical cord develop. This technology can potentially save early preemies. We might even be able to save preemies as young as 15 weeks, but that's all. Mostly it will improve the prognosis for preemies in the 20-24 weeks range.
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.
It happens so often my son was in the NICU due to jaundice and there was a baby that came in at full term with the cord wrapped round it's neck and didn't breathe for 20 mins one day the parents thought they were gonna have a new baby the next day they were planning its funeral was horrible. There was a 21 week baby in there too that weighed the size of a tin of soup
It always start from the positive side n ends on the negative side
I'd rather this over commercial surrogacy any day.
Right? It should be available for everyone. Pregnancy is proven to have so many negative health effects on women too.
As long as the commercial part is handled not as a form of slavery, it isn’t the worst you can imagine. But when this technology matures, it will be a great leap forward.
@@MetallicReg anything voluntary can't be slavery by default. if you really need a sample of modern slavery, this is conscription aka draft which still exists in many countries and for men only.
This isn't an alternative to surrogacy
@@Orinatlit will also dissolve women's leverage on society
next step make them born as 18 year olds ready to go to the military ☺
That's terrible
that's another conservatives' hysteria. the same was on IVF in the 1970s.
Like Clone army of star wars.
@@wyass4722I'm pretty sure that's the point they were trying to make
Nazi's dream...
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
@@CraigDavidson-ir2tw partly great as my life is cushy, but as animals i see ourselves as toddlers fighting in a sandbox over inconsequential ideas and which toy belongs to whom and which corner is ours. Oblivious to the coming storm with no shelter, after which the cycle repeats. Never had we access to more vital and true information, looking around, i do not see how we are any more informed than anyone before us, maybe even less. guess i should write my diary elsewhere
@@CraigDavidson-ir2tw why so interested?
can you explain more on how it can go incredibly bad please
@@YA-kr4fr Once synthetic wombs can be used to grow children, together with crispr cas9, what do you think racist, eugenicist, medical professionals with zero ethics and militaries of any capable nation are going to do? And that covers only secret military / industrial use. i don't know man, use your imagination.
@@nocomment3294governments are doing this now with humans also it's the least concerns
I would love to see it. Just imagine bearing two children while I have an autoimmune disease
Nahhh why would you want to create a person who could inherit that? Just find another kid that nobody wants.
@@oceanwater6887How insensitive of you
@@oceanwater6887 Wow, harsh.
@@mnkwazi she is right Passing a disease that is incurable knowingly that too to your own child is just inhumane😡 That baby didn't do anything to deserve that miserable life.
@random_person_on_internet which is why people like me are studying into epigenetics so that someone like this person and others would be able to stop suffering from so many genetic diseases. With medical ethics I really don't think the technology with artificial wombs will roll out without also the advancement of genomics.
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.
Are you all INSANE? Male pregnancy? Is the world gone mad? Since when we are smarter than Nature ? We will pay the price for this madness
I think it will change the way we deal with each other dramatically, men not needing females to reproduce anymore, will be interesting to see how it unfolds.
@@GeenSama interesting?! It will be Horrifying, straight out of a distopyan horror movie….any time men goes against nature there is a price to pay. And children should be absolutely out of this experimentation, new monsters are being created every day in this sick society and all for money!and as goes for trans and other bs they are just a mistake of nature they shouldn’t be reproducing just accept it and move on and let others live their life in LINE with Nature Laws
@@GeenSamaStill need females for the eggs.
@@Serein88no they can use men’s stems cells to replicate egg cells now.
Possible? Likely Ethical? Probably never, we just create more problems for ourselves.
WHats unethical about it?
its unethical to not do artificial wombs that benefit humanity
I think this would allow someone who is high risk and cannot carry baby to have a baby.
I'm worried that this would affect the baby's mental development. After all a lab is etirely different from the mother. The whirring of machines instead the sound of the mother going on through life. Even birds cheep at their chicks before they hatch.
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.
I do not know about that but yeah, artificial wombs will become more socially acceptable.
It's fascinating and scary at da cem tiam .
Just pick a random example: nowadays people around the world still dying from diseases that can be easily neutralized by medical treatment discovered in the past century. So, looking at the bigger picture and beyond developed countries, the natural birth is here to stay for sooo long.
I have (2) questions for you. If we use artificial wombs why are we still focused on 9 months, when this is used because the baby has developed enough and can leave the mother. 2. If there is no mother to worry about why can't we speed up the rate of growth and have more mature kids at birth? I guess my point is that so much of birth is to protect the mother. Most other animals have more mature babies. Humans have huge heads that can endanger the mother. Just think about the possibilities if you can grow a more mature and less dependent baby.
I definitely agree with you there.
Amazing work and the insights being garnered will be priceless in the neonatal physiology. Looking forward to more updates on your progress.
but who will it be for? how about genetic selection of psychic babies that have more probabilities of becoming psychic through training with current knowledge of lucid dreaming controlling lucid dreams to provide omniscience. i mean, if we can do what we can do with tech, we can also get psychic babies.
I'm a firm believer that at some secret military base they have already been doing this for years...
Im sure that there are many men,and women,that would LOVE this idea.
especially infertile women. it's a huge nowadays problem
@@blckmbor women who are afraid of horrible pain for giving birth
@@fatemad4012this!
I thought this is about creating babys just with genetic material without burdening the woman. Imagine you can choose from various attributes, gender, skin/hair-color, height, .... and then pick him/her up after 9 months like an order.
CRISPR
that's not a child, not even a pet
Sounds like eugenics.
@@michitakadouglas4130 and what is so bad about it? eugenic has always been practiced and still is.
@@YA-kr4fr Which is a bad thing, right?
There is so much more to creating /sustaining life than just a suitable environment
we don't learn from history eh? more children, more are dying... third world countries mentality 👀
There really isn't if the environment is perfect
@@danesha4705 There is no such thing as a perfect environment. 😂
@@karo2090 there is
@@danesha4705No
This will be useful for designer babies via genetic engineering
Completely unrelated.
A true mutant
First they tell us this planet is overpopulated and now they are worried millions die every day 😂😂😂
White population is decreasing rapidly probably it'll help revive it.
Let’s talk about the positives but not the negative side ie evil flip side…
Literal Baby Factories.
Artificial wombs gonna go hard 💀
what is the relation between stratosphere and birth?
the number people commenting negatively without even watching the video is astounding. or they did watch the video and would rather see more premature babies die. either way....its sad.
I imagine that in the far future traditional biological ways to have children will be seen as archaic. At that point there will definitely be advertised babies
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When I was an undergraduate sophomore taking a genetics class, I wondered whether mammals other than humans could be used for embryo gestation, but I quickly dismissed such idea as surrogacy is legal; the cost of using a human surrogate mother should be significantly less than using genetically modified mammals that costs way above a million dollar, if not hundreds millions, per animal. I would quickly dismiss any dystopian criticism by asserting that human surrogacy should be cheaper than artificial ones, at least for now. What comes to my mind about this technology is that it addresses the late stage of embryo development. Previously, any significant health issue in the late stage of embryo development typically leads to premature birth or abortion. But with this technology, mothers may have options to transfer the embryo and raise it in an artificial batch. On the downside, I suspect that babies grown in batches are more prone to syndromes from DNA damage like Down and Angelman syndrome, which was the case in vitro(at least the professor believed), and potential weak DNA damage resistance, which can be amplified by a person's behavior like doing alcohol or tobacco, leading higher probability of cancers than naturally grown one. I believe the general public would prefer naturally grown babies unless we observe a significant advance in genetic modification technology and artificial batching.
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This is a really thoughtful idea actually.
It sounds weird when you say naturally grown. I get Steven King vibes.
This can't come soon enough to be honest...
Do you remember when disposable diapers first came out? They were marketed for emergences, vacations, other rare uses. But Moms glabbed onto them immediately for regular use. Being pregnant is not fun and game, especially toward the end. If this becomes possible there is going to be regular use. I've always read sci fi. In one novel the author has a casual "background" mention of specially developed cows that can carry human babies ... 😱💕
Sounds like a great idea for advanced countries with extremely low birthrates.
You don't think ANY mother would be happy to see her child survive being born prematurely?
@@FutureCommentary1 They don't need mothers, we also already have synthetic embryons
Only if it was safe enough, it could be used for non medical reasons.
@@NoidoDevin the Future, but countries like Japan really NEED it
The problem is not low birth rates. The problem is raising kids is expensive. Who will raise those kids?
Love the video and the topic.
If this can save babies I am all for it.
Will this be a one way ticket? How many generations of development outside the physical constraints of a woman's body would it take to be impossible to go back? The human head is already at the limits of natural birth, and for many women its really just over that limit!
You could be right about the head getting bigger, what's for sure is that it will bring other problems with it, the thing is that a lot of people see a solution in artificial wombs, I think of it more like being a way to once more weaken the human population. The true solution is hard and would take many generations to achieve but would be more sustainable over centuries, indeed I am thinking of the natural selection. I have 2 hypothesis of what could happen the first one is that our brains would get denser so it would take less volume in our heads while maintaining its function or even getting more performante the second one is that the birth canal would get larger and by that making labor and birth easier. It could be that both hypothesis are linked or maybe only 1 of them or one that I didn't think of would occur who knows maybe nothing will change🤷♂?
Could say that about c section
I think it would strengthen the human race, if women weren't burdened by pregnancy, and, the brain could grow bigger because there wouldn't be the problem of leaving the V @@adamkhattou8694
@chrishan9138 The issue you brought up is a non-issue in the future. By the time artificial wombs have a significant impact on demography over at least two generations, all the combinations of genes and conditions causing premature birth will have been figure out. And while people will still be born from artificial wombs by convenience for women, we could keep updating our genepool as double mesure to correct the genetics that makes childbirth difficult. So that if a woman find herself pregnant and has to carry a child full term and give birth out-of-reach of modern technology, her edited genetics will make it as easy as possible for her to do so.
So they'll be doing this with babies in one ward of a hospital and aborting them in the ward next door.
I bet your mother is pro choice these days
20% of pregnancies are simply miscarried by desing of human body - abortion is insignificant tiny % of something that’s happening anyway naturally. Anyway abortion is meant to protect women’s health when they don’t want to go through dangerous process of pregnancy. Yes, maternal mortality still exists - pregnancy is still a gamble with women’s lives. Only the ones that are ready to take the gamble in exchange for a baby should do it. For unwanted pregnancies - it’s not worth it.
Wanted babies ≠ unwanted fetuses, and everyone involved is free to make their own choice.
@@eurekamreum5458 Baby or foetus; both terms are correct. But deciding to use the second term only when it is unwanted is a way to dehumanise it.
@@samuelbcn it's still a foetus/fetus regardless of how you feel about it. and an embryo is still an embryo.
These comments of accepting this are terrifying. Such measures are taken place with the disguise of saving 24 week premature babies when so many more babies are lost to abortion.. what are other situations this will be used? So men can have babies?
This can work as an alternative to abortion. So what's the problem?
“200,000 units are ready, with a million more well on the way”
For premature babies, YES. For brave new world, soulless drones clones, NO.
For premature babies no Because they are premature due to genetic reasons Natural selection allows species to get rid of bad genes which keeps the gene pool healthier and stronger
Some countries are having low birthrate they may have no choice but to do this gaving the fact those countries don't want immigration anymore
This would be a game changer 🙌 👏 🙏
For the feminist
@@mistycloud4455for the feminist? I'm feminist, I don't think is feminism problem, is patriarchy men problem, especially the men who still control view women/girls as object. Not matter how high tech you are, if you misogynistic and view people like that, you're worst and didn't love.
Not for feminists, for posthumanists and evolution.
@@mistycloud4455 it is actually the opposite, men become able to have kids like single mother. More single fathers will be there. Men can have a child even if the mother wants to abort that child.
Got to love science! We are saving babies lives
How do you measure the release pressure of fluid between the temperature heat base to the cooling base
And the direction it re burps itself or we gathers itself how about we make this other change get off of artificial
Unbelievable 😮
While this would be really cool, I do worry just a liiiiiiiiittle bit because how this may affect humans long term. Some of us have changed over generations of having added assistance, my family included, and I’m so happy we’ve helped people, but it changes who can easily have kids, and if people who couldn’t carry a child to term has kids, we’ve saved a child, but may accidentally have more and more people who can’t have a child conventionally, and this won’t be an issue until the technology is no longer available, and if the company left a community, they’d be left in a horrifying position where their very existence required a company’s aid, which seems, scary. Hopefully it’s nothing so dramatic.
That is assuming that one company would hold a monopoly of course. More urgently, however, we are already facing an age crisis due to fewer having children, while those who have children have fewer. So Stabilizing our aging populations is more important right now than worrying about possible medical conditions. Your concern also seems a little misplaced we are already saving a solid chunk of all children who would have died due to complications during birth as well as having been born with various deformities that would be deadly if uncorrected, on top of diseases that, naturally, would claim many children in the first years of their lives if not for medical intervention helping their bodies survive and recover. I would also note that watching medical breakthroughs save a life while being concerned that saving the life will also save the issue that put it in peril is short-sighted as you're assuming that another breakthrough, like gene therapy for example, can't in the long term eliminate the issue completely. To clarify this is not to say that there aren't valid concerns involved in this and there should and will be discussions regarding the ethics and consequences of this technology just as with any other life-changing technology we've developed in modern times. But the counter-points I've brought up and others that I haven't brought up should be considered.
@@wilmersandstrom2826 I may respond with more information soon, but that’s actually not an issue like most people assume. While we are having fewer kids, our population is still stable due to immigration, but the places where people are emigrating from are stabilizing and are expected to stop sending so many immigrants, and the cities will depopulate a little bit, and we’ll be mostly fine as they refocus on trying to fund the maintenance of infrastructure they never should have built in the first place..
You need company to survive already in any aspect.
Every pregnancy is different and one woman may have one preterm baby and one post term the very next pregnancy. These factors can be very much random. You’re trying to simplify a very complex issue. It’s no one’s fault that a baby must be delivered preterm. Why not save them? Genetic causes of extreme prematurity are only a small amount of preterm births. Moms living unhealthy lives leading to prematurity is much much more common
But that's already true for c-sections.
It reminds me of the birth of Kaurava brothers.
"Axlotl tanks" (Frank Herberts Dune) comes to mind. Despite the Sting of that idea 🤔 I'm not opposed. Having suffered a miscarriage, i'd have love to have an option like this to save my baby. Hooray Science. Wonder if this could help populate Mars colonies as such 🤔
Welcome to this brave new world.
Have you ever read "Brave New World"? Read it before anymore comments. Or at least watch the superb black and white movie with Richard Burton. Read what I wrote, don't like the scolding tone, and I apologize. As a retired librarian however I get so tired of people writing comments they only know the tiniest bit about. I often suggest they should Google before posting. 😥💕
You don't need to apologise. It's entirely appropriate to scold ignorant people making references they don't actually understand 😂
Hypnopedia has been cracked for a while now, everyone belongs to everyone else is well on its way, and most people can totally laugh at the director for being a "father". Just make this technology something only large corporations can afford and the kids of the future will defiantly be singing dear little bottle of mine.@@veramae4098
After having my first i have nerve damage due to a difficult birth.. I'd love to have a child but it's not possible. This would be an amazing opportunity.
You mean you'd love to be pregnant and give birth? Why?
I think this will be success and happen. AI could assist the gene edit, gene selection, pregnant monitoring and nutrition control, ... further, AI centralize the population management, education, training, nursing, duties arrangement for each human person in a close environmemt city.
This is so awesome but it's also one of the creepiest videos on KZhead
Gives a feeling of Matrix movie
This would be amazing. Women won't need to suffer so much pain before and after birthing a child.
I hope so!
cool project
Lets be honest, the goal is pure but we all know this would be the dawn of the clone army
I would love to do this! I would love to have children (2 or 3) but I don't want to be pregnant. I am for now even choosing to not have them just because I don't want to go through multiple pregnagnies.
This is for babies that are born prematurely. Pregnancy is only one of many sacrifices you would have to make as a parent. Have you thought of a cat?
@@ferdiw.9808 I already have a cat. I'm very popular with kids and very engaging when playing with them. Would love to show them the world, but I'm not gonna gi through pregnancy after slimming down from 80kg to 55kg. It was a difficult thing for me to do and I suffered mentally while being overweight.
@@NoctLightCloud I don't know your struggle with weight, but raising multiple babies/kids/teenagers 24/7 during 20+ years might still be more overwhelming
@@ferdiw.9808 yes, agree, but being overweight while doing that doesn't make it easier. I do better when I'm slim and do those things.
Then you just should have children at all. Children are way more then your dress size after. So immature.
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.
Not really. The hardest part of pregnancy is often the first trimester. Maybe it would be better to stop trying to scare women about pregnancy.
@@mamadragonfuldo you mean it’s hard bc of preeclampsia, cholestasis, infection, uncontrolled GD, etc? First trimester is only higher risk in terms of miscarriages due to genetic defects. Late second and third trimester is definitely where more complications arise
@@mamadragonful I don't what you're on about since pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood is glorified and not seen in a realistic way most of the time. This explains all the horror stories coming from women that had rose tinted glasses on only to find out the truth and regret having the baby.
@@hopefulfortomorrow1039 At this point, the horror stories (which are equally inaccurate) outnumber the idealized stories. Dramatically so. At least on the West Coast of the United States. Can you give some SPECIFIC examples of the glorification you describe in a movie or a show?
@@hopefulfortomorrow1039 In nearly every popular culture piece of media, childbirth is treated as a medical emergency. Often the mother nearly dies. Mothers dying in childbirth are a routine trope. The only reasonably accurate birth scene I can think of offhand is in the movie Children of Men. I haven't seen a "3 grunts and there's a pristine baby" scene for...40 years maybe? I can't think of one offhand. I have no idea where you are seeing glorified images of childbirth, but I would love some citations. Pregnancy is treated as either a disaster or a complete non-issue. Neither is accurate. It's rarely depicted as hard work, but totally worth it. Either the woman is crippled by pregnancy and nearly dies, or it doesn't slow her down in any way other than needing some clothes with a larger waistband. Maybe you count the latter as "glorified"? I count it as "discounted and minimized." Motherhood is glorified? Where? Can you provide a citation from popular culture? The Strong Female Lead never has children. Often mothers are absent and presumed dead. Or they die early in the film as noble martyrs. Or they're monstrous, abusive enemies to be escaped. Or they're basically part of the background, the concerned mom yelling "be careful" to the kids as they run off into adventures. I suppose there are many examples of the heroic mother of ONE elementary aged child. She's nearly always a single mother, standing up against the world to save her child who is in peril. The kid is always in the 7-12 range: old enough to have adventures, young enough to need rescuing. I suppose there are the beatific images of a radiant mom posing with her new baby, madonna-style. But it's just a pose. That pose never moves. Once the baby actually moves, the images are usually crying, vomiting, and throwing spinach. Positive depictions of motherhood with toddlers or preschoolers? I can't think of any offhand. Mothers are mostly antagonists or inspirational martyrs in popular culture. Neither is "glorifying" in my opinion. I'm interested in what you see as "glorifying".
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Growing a fetus is so very complex and many processes are triggered within the mother during fetal development. Growing a fetus outside of the mother would require many artificial interventions and imo could never be nearly as healthy as natural birth. This is morally questionable also. I can foresee some legal implications.
To be fair, I wouldn’t really call an uncomfortable chance of death for the mom, baby, or both healthy. If it can be done while 100% sufficiently nurturing the baby, i’d consider it just the next step technology has always provided us in adding safety to birth. (Or any medical procedure)
@@TheHezzinator I just had a baby one month ago so I do understand how hard pregnancy is. I did have complications. But people tend to rush in with technology because we CAN do it but often there are many other side effects and implications that are not fully accounted for. I just saw during my labor process how many medical interventions are involved in labor and delivery which are at times counter productive. Increased technology is very helpful but usually common sense approaches get lost in metrics and standardization. Technological advancement is not always best.
But natural birth is not healthy or perfect either. If artificial manages to have similar sucess rate for babies compsred to natural, artificial will be the right choice as it represents zero risk to the mother.
@@stefanisilva2493 Being alive is not healthy since we are on the path towards death since the moment of birth our bodies began to deteriorate in various ways. Body Fighting off pathogens, cancer cells. Free radicals degrading our cells. Imperfections in cellular division creating defects ECT. Birth is not perfect because people aren't and life isn't and while birthing is hard so is just living and breathing that's why people have diabetes, heart problems, cancer, various organs failures. Biological processes are imperfect. Now that this has been established it's also important to note that biology is incredibly complex and it is extremely foolish to believe that incubating a human in a plastic bag or whatever would ever be healthier than incubating and growing naturally within the mother. It shows a lack of understanding for everything that goes on during fetal development.
@@TheMariemarie16 If you know how imperfect nature is and how complex the process it involves I can assume you are informed about how risky and harsh is pregnancy to female body. Thus, we can agree that it's enough of a reason to justify this wonderfull project. People used to have similar fears towards IVFs, and here we are with millions of healthy "tube" kids.
It would start out with premature babies and as the technology advanced would probably be able to sustain entire pregnancy.
Very cool
The benefits out way the risks of the technology
Remember that Aquarius’s master is Saturn. And we know how he is on a moody day. Now imagine the Age of Aquarius... gone really really wrong.
I thought they were building a machine where you can grow a fertilized egg into a full baby. This is more like a liquid incubator.
It's not a tech to replace the full process, but only in the later stages. The first part would probably require another technology.
@@NoidoDev do you think it will eventually be possible in the future to build the technology to replace the full process?
I'm speechless
The future? Hardly. More like a product of current ambitions
My gut reaction to this was yikes. These premature births are not exactly births, but rather your body is aborting the fetus due to some critical flaw. Nature did not intend for these to survive, if the baby was healthy, your body wouldn't have aborted the pregnancy. I think there are serious ethical concerns here, especially in how it will impact our medical system as these children get older, and ultimately the health of the human gene pool assuming they go on to reproduce.
😑 many premature births are due to complications dealing with the mother NOT the baby. This comment was incredibly insensitive to those of us who have had, and or lost premature babies that were otherwise completely healthy.
What you say is true in some cases but in some cases it is due to the mother. I guess your point still stands even if it is 50:50.
This actually can solve so many of our problems! Especially the declining births in developed countries!
no need solve declining birth bcoz it is not a problem.
@@shrin210 is by far the biggest problem in the world
@@shrin210it will be when we get old an lonely
When internet and unbelievable invention can be possible that is a not a big deal, This is possible
The future AI says "This human race is really messed up. I think I can do better."
We are seeing many advances in reproductive technologies, combined with new relationship perspectives. This technology can increase gender equity and save lives. Although, if it's something that will take time to arrive, it will be for rich people. Just like any innovation that is fearful and can go wrong, if it is regulated and used responsibly it can go very well! Like the plane, it can be used for war, but it has also become the safest means of transport in the world. The future will be amazing!!!!
This technology will likely help narrow the gender pay gap, which appears to be somewhat linked to maternity leave.
Jesus what on Earth am I reading? Going against nature for gender gap bs🤦♀️ we are doomed
Absolutely!
this also could be an alternative for abortion
so interesting.
Super tricky situation, one other way to look at it is.. why are children born prematurely? Is there a way to avoid baby's being born prematurely? I've read somewhere it could be because of a lack of Omegas in the food, but there must be some valid reasons why a baby is born earlier.
Please PLEASE educate yourself better. There I’ll always be pre-mes always. It’s not a one problem issue. It’s a million-variable problem issue.
@@Orinatlin spite of that, we still should strive to reduce the rates of premature birth
Artificial wombs would be one of the just important inventions of all time. They would save millions of lives.
nothing sounds "sci-fi" anymore since 2020
A time travel car that would be impossible for anyone to build
@@Roqathefairflower "we have a winner" - requiem for a dream voice
Could see people using this technology in space exploration when we start colonize other planets
I know this makes a lot of people think of something dystopian like the Matrix but in reality this could save a lot of babies and mothers.
With this, there would be no bond connection with the mother and baby if this happened.
So adoptive mothers and step mothers and fathers don't love their kids? That's bs. Plenty of people struggle to bond with their kids due to the trauma of childbirth and post partum depression
The Matrix world is not that bad
A.I. will solve the technical issues and it won't take decades. The question will be ethical...
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This reminds me of a manga I had read..
Militaries gonna start growing perfect genepool soldiers like in the clonewars.
it doesn't make any sense, AI and robots are going to replace humans, that's much better and more efficient.
Simple question. Who will actually benefit from this? I know that the headline for this tech will be to "save life of premature babies" but if we are looking at the result which can be answer in very general term "Creating human life by the press of the button"....I think we have already experience these possibilites in the movies already. - MIddle class or white collar these days are less likely able to afford to have or raise the babies thanks to how the economy playing out currently, Not to mention alot of work and position that need to be filled and can be filled easy with this tech. - The experiment on Gene modification can be subtle implement under a guise of procedure, You can figure out what will happen later. - Nation would love to have their soldier being create and process without a need for those pesky tradition and family to raise them. Why, you can just grow your personal cannon fodder from the lab!! Despite on these bleak possibillites, This tech will improve humanities in a very certain kind of way. Although a regulation must be met or else coopeartion or government will simply doing as they please.
Are artificial wombs the future? I SURE HOPE SO! The world will be unimaginably better!
Science is incredible!!! Technology is really advance...
I wouldn’t be surprised if already existed for eternities already
They would really need this because with all the economic hardship. Women will stop having kids. It’s either the government pays women to birth and nurture kids or they grow them in the lab because no more taxes for them.
I’m pretty sure this was predicted by Aldous Huxley in his dystopian novel.
I'm pretty sure you don't care about infertile people's suffering.
it's only a matter of time~
3:55 looks like they just playing with dolls.
They are. The mannequins are for experimentation and training that doesn't put any humans in danger.
This is science! It’s amazing!
I think govt shud take responsibility of producing babie artificially as it is now becoming ridiculously expansive to raise a child
Will the government raise those kids?
nice babys from labs would make genderstudies interesting again 😀
satılık bebek var ? The work titled There is a Baby for Sale
Considering how much trauma mothers experience before, during and after pregnancy and how it affects the child's development... I am not so sure this is that bad. We're not the type of society to care for women and children anyway.
Women don’t care enough for themselves. We don’t have to be victims. Women decide to birth in hospitals and undergo the trauma that brings. We have a say in how and where we gestate and birth our babies!
Maybe the team is too narrow by focusing on saving premature baby... It can be developed and save pregnant women lives as well..
? There's plently of research that surrounds lowering birth-related moralities for women too. Anyway, this team's expertise lies within creating artificial wombs, which are only suitable to save premature babies, not women.
Yes
Sky-fi!?!? Oh my days, that tickled me!