{"id":47519,"date":"2017-04-16T11:22:40","date_gmt":"2017-04-16T18:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/first-artificial-wombs-researchers-now-grow-human-embryos-in-a-laboratory-to-study-pregnancy"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:04:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:04:41","slug":"first-artificial-wombs-researchers-now-grow-human-embryos-in-a-laboratory-to-study-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/first-artificial-wombs-researchers-now-grow-human-embryos-in-a-laboratory-to-study-pregnancy","title":{"rendered":"First Artificial Wombs: Researchers now grow human embryos in a laboratory to study pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-artificial-wombs-researchers-now-grow-human-embryos-in-a-laboratory-to-study-pregnancy.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We all know how to get pregnant or at least should know, but despite so many tips out there boosting the chances of conceiving, the actual first 2 weeks of pregnancy remain an undetectable mystery to science.<\/p>\n<p>A pregnancy test is usually done via markers detecting hormones in <i>specific substances<\/i> like urine and blood. At the very beginning, though, these hormone levels are just too low to register a positive test. Without actually looking into the womb, nobody can watch fertilized eggs grow. Yes, we understand the process going on, as the embryo (which is basically a mass of cells called blastocyst) starts dropping its outer layer to implant within the uterine lining.<\/p>\n<p>However, only a couple of weeks ago researchers from Rockefeller University were the first to witness and even raise human embryos in a laboratory for the maximum ethically allowable time of 13 days.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/pionic.org\/first-artificial-wombs-researchers-now-grow-human-embryos-in-a-laboratory-to-study-pregnancy\">https:\/\/pionic.org\/first-artificial-wombs-researchers-now-gr...-pregnancy<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know how to get pregnant or at least should know, but despite so many tips out there boosting the chances of conceiving, the actual first 2 weeks of pregnancy remain an undetectable mystery to science. A pregnancy test is usually done via markers detecting hormones in specific substances like urine and blood. At [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47519"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58058,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47519\/revisions\/58058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}