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FETUSES SURVIVE from as early as 24 weeks of gestation today; partial ectogenesis is firmly underway in leading research hospitals, with a goal of complete ectogenesis. Partial ectogenesis from 14-24 weeks is said to be a realistic goal in the coming years. http://lnkd.in/d5zP7hX View in LinkedIn

PARTIAL ECTOGENESIS. "Carlo Bulletti, a professor of reproductive biotechnology at the University of Bologna, says that partial ectogenesis—growing foetuses between 14 and 35 weeks of pregnancy—is already within our reach if we were to use all of the knowledge and technology at our disposal." http://lnkd.in/d8NDttg View in LinkedIn

TEST TUBE WOMB. "Dr. Hung-Ching Liu ... has engineered endometrial tissue in the laboratory by taking cells from a woman’s endometrium and prompting them to grow on a biodegradable scaffolding shaped like a human uterus. When Liu introduced an embryo to the artificial uterine lining, it successfully implanted." http://lnkd.in/dqMgSUShttp://lnkd.in/duSV2_r) View in LinkedIn

EMBRYO CULTURE. "Over the past few decades, significant advances have been made in developing conditions for culturing both pre- and postimplantation stage embryos." http://lnkd.in/dkz2xth View in LinkedIn

IVF WOMB ON CHIP. "Teruo Fujii and his colleagues believe their "womb-on-a-chip" is superior to growing embryos in the static environment of a Petri dish, the way in-vitro fertilization clinics now prepare embryos for implantation into a mother's womb. Eventually, they hope it will lead to better outcomes for infertile women." http://lnkd.in/defcr2P View in LinkedIn

AUTOLOGOUS CULTURED WOMBS, using endometrial cells taken from a woman's body, and cultured on a scaffold, permit human embryo implantation, ex-vivo,in a bath of chemicals, hormones and growth factors. http://lnkd.in/dWnXFkS View in LinkedIn

VIABLE MOUSE WOMB ON HORIZON. "In 2002 she and her colleagues started making mouse wombs and growing mouse embryos inside them. . . . Liu thinks she and her team should have a viable mouse womb in 5 to 10 years. A human model will take longer – “10 years, maybe, or a little more,” she says, assuming that restrictions on fetal testing are lifted or eased." http://www.nrlc.org/archive/Killing_Embryos/ArtificialWombs.html View in LinkedIn

SHARK ARTIFICIAL UTERUS. "Otway conducted the first trial of the acrylic uterus with 10-month-old embryos from a pregnant wobbegong shark ... He replicated a shark's uterus by bathing the embryos in 68˚F seawater. After 17 days, the fake womb "gave birth" to six healthy pups." http://lnkd.in/dCjMrST View in LinkedIn

VORKOSIGAN SAGA VISION OF THE FUTURE. "The uterine replicator ... allowed unborn human fetuses to be gestated in vitro, rather than in a woman's body. 'Gene-cleaning' was a major use of the replicator. Defects in the zygote could be looked for and eliminated prior to birth, removing any genetic problems, such as diseases or inherited traits (like a weak heart)." http://lnkd.in/d7pDnZ6 View in LinkedIn

ARTIFICIAL UTERUS. "This can potentially be performed as a switch from a natural uterus to an artificial uterus, thereby moving the threshold of fetal viability to a much earlier stage of pregnancy. In this sense, it can be regarded as a neonatal incubator with very extended functions." http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_uterus View in LinkedIn