Total blue-sky speculation. It shows up in several science fiction novels.
That said -- when I was born, I was born 6 weeks early, which was JUST the edge of how early you could save a preeme, while you can now save premeees who are barely out of the second trimester. And, at the same time, you are getting better and better in vitro work, where you can push how long you can develop a blastocyst to an embryo before implantation.
So. . . you ARE kinda narrowing the length of time that an actual human needs to be involved, so if you can squeeze that time to zero, then you've EFFECTIVELY got artificial wombs.
But nobody, that I know of, is doing any actual, serious research on uterine replicators. I just wish they would.
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Date: 2006-02-04 07:25 pm (UTC)That said -- when I was born, I was born 6 weeks early, which was JUST the edge of how early you could save a preeme, while you can now save premeees who are barely out of the second trimester. And, at the same time, you are getting better and better in vitro work, where you can push how long you can develop a blastocyst to an embryo before implantation.
So. . . you ARE kinda narrowing the length of time that an actual human needs to be involved, so if you can squeeze that time to zero, then you've EFFECTIVELY got artificial wombs.
But nobody, that I know of, is doing any actual, serious research on uterine replicators. I just wish they would.