Month: September 2022

MALE PREGNANCY. "Robert Winston, a pioneer of in-vitro fertilization, told London's Sunday Times that "male pregnancy would certainly be possible" by having an embryo implanted in a man's abdomen – with the placenta attached to an internal organ such as the bowel – and later delivered by Caesarean section." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_pregnancy View in LinkedIn

HUXLEY'S ARTIFICIAL UTERUS. "In Huxley's dystopian future, children are grown in artificial wombs before being decanted into the world. It described a centrifugal pump that kept a liquid of hog's stomach extract and fetal foal’s liver moving over the placenta and driving it through a synthetic lung and waste product filter." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_uterus View in LinkedIn

"INEVITABLE": ARTIFICIAL WOMBS. "Humanity inevitably will return to the egg via “artificial wombs” that allow women the same gestating liberty as birds in the air. Critics of “ectogenesis” abound, but we’re convinced of its advantages. Synthetic uteri will spawn exciting freedoms for both genders." http://lnkd.in/dFhGRK3 View in LinkedIn

XENOPREGANCY. "Another potential application of ectogenesis is the possibility of xenopregnancy. Inter specific pregnancies ... Involve an embryo or fetus and a uterine carrier belonging to a different species." Among other applications is the possibility of de-extinction. http://lnkd.in/d5zP7hX View in LinkedIn

XENOPREGNANCY. "Potential applications include pigs carrying human fetuses to term as ... alternative to surrogate mothers or artificial uteri for gay male couples or mothers with damaged uteri. It would also provide a sober, drug-free and nonsmoking carrier ... for recreation of extinct species." http://lnkd.in/dPrhEjW View in LinkedIn

SURROGATE MECHANICAL WOMBS have an enormous, if not insuperable, barrier to overcome: the nurturing hormonal maternal environment, and the epigenetic changes by trimester, that took evolution so long to perfect, not to mention the electrophysiological intimacy with the mother. It seems unlikely that this can ever be replicated with a machine without penalty. View in LinkedIn

ADVentura Capital gave the first 'SPARKS' award to Dr. Carlos Buesa, CEO of Orizon, for his recent pharma deal of €300 M in Barcelona. The first sparks to light the fire of Biopharma in Barcelona, to become the Boston of 1989, when the lid came off. View in LinkedIn

IMPLICATIONS FOR ARTIFICIAL WOMB. The intimate genetic, molecular and physiological relationship between embryo and the placenta, as well as with its microbiome, which modulates according to trimester, and the early fetal inoculation of its own microbiome from the vaginal passage and colostrum argue that an artificial womb would be extremely challenging. View in LinkedIn

IVF EMBRYO CULTURE. "The embryo will reach the blastocyst stage once it has been cultured in adequate conditions and with the appropriate nourishing requirements on each development stage for 5 or 6 days at the laboratory. They will be transferred into the mother’s womb at this moment." http://lnkd.in/dCktm4c View in LinkedIn

FETAL FARMING PROHIBITION ACT, 2006. "This act is a response to the idea that, at some point in the future, a technology might be developed that involved cells or tissues being removed from fetuses and used for fetal tissue implants or stem cell therapy. This proposal is controversial and has been termed "fetal farming" and "fetal organ harvesting"." http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetus_Farming_Prohibition_Act View in LinkedIn