Lab Develops Artificial Womb

Meowharishi writes: "According to this article at the Observer, scientists from Cornell University have successfully developed the first artificial womb. Embroys successfully attached themselves to the walls of these wombs and began to grow but were terminated to comply with regulations. Developments like this really offer tremendous opportunities for creating a family for those who cannot have children the old fashioned way."

Who else...

[thesolo]

...is thinking of the "Baby Harvesting" scene in the The Matrix right about now??

hrmm

[Anonymous Coward]

a step closer to having male pregnancy,,another Arnold movie predicts real life =p

Pinky

[Alien54]

oh great.

I can see the Sci-fi scenarios now: Saddam Hussein breeding an army of clones to conquer the world.

Talk about Pinky and the Brain.

What they didn't tell you...

[Anonymous Coward]

..is that the geek wanted to make an artificial vagina. He had to switch to uterus in order to get funding. But make no mistake -- there's dual use technology going on here.

Bene Tleilax hiding in Cornell?

[Emugamer]

Heretics! next thing you will know MIT will be violateing the statues of the Butlerian Jihad those with computers in the likeness of the mind.. oh wait..

So this is how Lucas...

[AgTiger]

So this is how Lucas is going to promote Episode II.

Re:survival of the weakest

[rtaylor]

How do you know that the deaf, dumb or blind aren't better physically suited to the environment of the future, but have simply evolved early?

I can think of advantages to all 3. Having a hard time coming up for a reason for ugly though.

Feminists crack me up.

[Daunting*Alligheri]

I mean honestly, I fall in this category, but this is too much, even for me:

'There are going to be real problems,' said organiser Dr Scott Gelfand, of Oklahoma State University. 'Some feminists even say artificial wombs mean men could eliminate women from the planet and still perpetuate our species. That's a bit alarmist. Nevertheless, this subject clearly raises strong feelings.'

For the record, how many guys do you know who come out saying 'Man, I'd love to have kids.. but its those damn _women_ I can't stand. Pussy? Who needs pussy! I just want a baby to cuddle!'

Sure, they don't like our PMS trips, but do they really want to eradicate sex (real sex) from their diets? I mean Rosy and her sisters, and the Realdoll [realdoll.com] only go so far...

These chicks make us normal feminists look bad.

Mental image

[PDHoss]

Can you imagine one of these things making an appearance in one of those ABC AfterSchool Special shows about teen pregnancy?

Holy shit, that would be so trippy.

PDHoss

I am living a Science Fiction novel

[Mahrin Skel]

I work in a virtual world that exists only in a computer, where I have the powers of a god. My government is trying to use computer technology to track my every move. Mega-corporations have the power to bend that government or any other to their will. People buy robotic pets, and other robots fight each other to destruction for our entertainment. In the same year they find a way to concieve children without fathers, *and* gestate children without mothers, and before the year is out we'll probably see the birth of the first human clone.

Christ on a crutch, this author *sucks*. Pick a plot and *go* with already, I can't keep track of this one.

--Dave Rickey

Better Idea

[cybercuzco]

Developments like this really offer tremendous opportunities for creating a family for those who cannot have children the old fashioned way."
Or for creating an army of genetically enhanced flying monkeys. Fly my pretties, fly! Hahahahahaha!

The art of reading before posting

[Rui del-Negro]

> Embroys successfully attached themselves
> to the walls of these wombs and began to
> grow but were terminated to comply with regulations.

That's nice, but any chance of doing the same with embryos?

RMN
~~~

Re:survival of the weakest

[Anonymous Coward]

Not only do we allow ... ugly, and stupid people to pro-create...

No one will accuse you of failing to back up your assertions.

Just imagine!!!

[Kymermosst]

If they were to combine such technology with a Realdoll! [realdoll.com]

She doesn't cook, she doesn't clean, but she will bear your children!

Re:Nine Months in a Sensory Deprivation Tank?

[hernick]

Ah.. that can be fixed with great ease, you know ? It wouldn't be hard to produce stimulation tapes. Play them 16 hours a day. Have them developed by "experts"

With some luck, the produced babies will be even more intelligent than "normal" babies.

And then, you could have "special" tapes which would help the baby develop certain reactions. Such as agression. That would be useful if you were trying to develop killer ninja babies.

Grow them in vats, and create a lot of automatons that will teach them to fight, as well as other required lifeskills. Such as learning a 'newspeak' type language which will form their view of the world.. And enable you to cheaply produce an army of drone-babies ! In only about 18 years after they're born !