{"id":98432,"date":"2019-11-12T17:22:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T01:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/artificial-wombs-may-soon-become-the-future-but-what-are-the-risks"},"modified":"2019-11-12T17:22:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T01:22:36","slug":"artificial-wombs-may-soon-become-the-future-but-what-are-the-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/artificial-wombs-may-soon-become-the-future-but-what-are-the-risks","title":{"rendered":"Artificial wombs may soon become the future \u2014 but what are the risks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artificial-wombs-may-soon-become-the-future-but-what-are-the-risks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The idea of growing babies outside the body has inspired <a href=\"https:\/\/daily.jstor.org\/on-the-history-of-the-artificial-womb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">novels and movies<\/a> for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Now, research groups around the world are exploring the possibility of artificial gestation. For instance, one group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/ncomms15112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">successfully grew<\/a> a lamb in an artificial womb <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com.au\/2017\/04\/26\/an-artificial-womb-has-successfully-grown-a-lamb-for-four-weeks_a_22055661\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">for four weeks<\/a>. Australian researchers have also experimented with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gizmodo.com.au\/2019\/03\/artificial-wombs-are-getting-better-and-better\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">artificial gestation for lambs<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2011\/09\/artificial-shark-uterus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sharks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And in recent weeks, researchers in The Netherlands <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2019\/oct\/08\/artificial-womb-dutch-researchers-given-29m-to-develop-prototype\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have received \u20ac2.9 million<\/a> to develop a prototype for gestating premature babies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of growing babies outside the body has inspired novels and movies for decades. Now, research groups around the world are exploring the possibility of artificial gestation. For instance, one group successfully grew a lamb in an artificial womb for four weeks. Australian researchers have also experimented with artificial gestation for lambs and sharks. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98432","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}