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- A new experimental design that can sustain mouse embryos outside the uterus means that soon, we may be able to watch mammalian embryo development in real time.
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Behold! My army of artificially grown dizzy mice!
Best comment ive seen so far
Lol
"Dizzy mice? Well that doesn't sound very frightening..."
*Dizzy mice are released*
"Oh no, they are dizzy and that's what makes them dangerous! RUN! There's too many of them!"
What's so frightening about mice running around in circles?
@@sergeantpeppers8858 because they can Circle you and their numbers so much easier lol we got to keep this joke going
The best part is that it's powered by a mouse running on a wheel. Efficiency at its best.
And use the mouse poop as fertilizer for more mouse food -- I see where you're going with this... unlimited power!
@@grayaj23 *The Senate has join the chat*
Lmao
"We can't just like peek our heads in there and see what's going on." Not with that attitude!
I wonder if you could look at embryo growth of a blue whale? Like just get a robot to drive into a whale and film it all haha (I’m sure it’s impossible, but less impossible than with mice).
@@gregoryfenn1462 theoretically you could do something like that but it would likely damage the barrier so it'd be more so do a surgery and put a camera in there than shove one in the hole.
Most laboratories do not fit a whale.
@@gregoryfenn1462 Just dive in head first with a GoPro. It'll work.
But virtually all of us can peek our heads out of there at some point.
the second story really hits me hard. I was born with a malformed valve that wasn't opening properly through most of my life. I had to get a lot of procedures done and I really wasn't properly informed about all of it and why it had to be done till my final operation came and the doctors sat me down and told me they were going to stop my heart, open my chest and fix my heart valve. Till that day my parents had kept me in the dark. It was a case of "we say so so that's it". I finally had a stint put in place to basically prop the valve open.
I'm sorry you had to go through that. Sometimes doctors aren't the best at saying these things but I am glad it worked and you are alive and well.
Sorry that must have been an awful experience for you.
@@Swordsman99k The doctors probably spoke to the parents, because he was considered too young before the last operation. Why his parents treated him like he was incapable of understanding has to be because they have problems with parenting.
@@kellydalstok8900 Agreed. Either way, it sounds like the procedure was a success and the OP is alive and well.
That's a heavy conversation to have with a doctor. How old were you? I also have a stent but in a renal vein for a rare genetic disorder.
What I'm hearing is that I can have a kid without "having" it
Hey, atleast you can have a second try... If you use only your own DNA.
@@tatuvarvemaa5314 a clone? hmmmm
@@leecrawford6560 ♪I think I'm a clone now♪
♪There's always two of me just a-hangin' around♪
I hated being pregnant.
I will take one please.
I feel like this news is missing a conversation about umbilical cords, seems more like they figured out a way to grow mammals in eggs which is also pretty amazing.
Then they're just in a quandary about the size of the yolk? ;o)
Would it still be classified as a mammal if it grows in an egg? Actual question, I'm really curious.
@@balbonits Yes, NEVER EVER forget the Platypus. They're mammals and they lay eggs. ;o)
@@balbonits the platypus is a somehow still a mammal
Good points, @@gnarthdarkanen7464 & @magnomanx . I had to google the definition to refresh my knowledge, here's what I got:
Mammal
noun
a warm-blooded vertebrate animal of a class that is distinguished by the possession of hair or fur, the secretion of milk by females for the nourishment of the young, and (typically) the birth of live young.
So, it's not how an animal is birthed, but the actual characteristics of said animal.
#themoreyouknow
As a stem cell biologist, I think the bioreactor used as artificial wombs can also be truly revolutionary for stem cell biology. Over the past years, so-called organoids have been generated which mimic parts of an organ. We can grow organoids from stem cells (which can be made from skin) and then use them to study development. For example, brain organoids helped to understand how the zika virus lead to a brain disease called microcephaly in embryos and how schizophrenia forms (I made a video about this). The thing is the larger an organoid gets the more issues we get with oxygenation so this new bioreactor could help!
"Revolutionary" hmm.. I see what you did there!!
Not even just that but like with the heart valve story I bet it could help in the study of growing replacement organs from a persons own stem cells.
As a clump of stem cells, I too see this as revolutionary
Cool perspective!
Have you heard of crispr? It's a method of copy and pasting DNA that was developed by studying bacteria that take virus DNA and cut and paste it into their own DNA so they can recognize it later on. If an organ had a genetic problem, crispr could be used to specifically correct the problem in a person's DNA.
Bad mice get put in the embryo spinner.
Lmaoo
this made me laugh so loud my mom yelled at me to go to sleep. i’m TWENTY
I lol'd
Bad mice embryos have committed the original sin
r/cursedcomments
Scientists: We have artificial wom..
Philosophers: Emergency meeting!!!!
I know right
I honestly see no issue with raising a fetus outside the womb, what’s the difference? It would be more convenient for the mother to not have to carry a child for 9 months.
@@katyungodly
I'm right with you there on this matter :) =)
@@katyungodly There could emergent factors that appear since this type of thing is foreign to humans. Like mothers may not be as attached to their child. I'm just theorizing though. Ideally, it works "perfectly" and women don't have to go through the pain of childbirth and have more free time for work and whatnot.
@@katyungodly Ah, but if the mother wants to abort the fetus but the father doesn't, then the fetus could be removed from her body (thus preserving her bodily autonomy) while the fetus grows into a baby and is raised by the father, while the mother pays child support. That's just *one* huge bucket of worms that would be overturned by a functioning artificial womb.
"There are fields, endless fields where human beings are no longer born. We are grown." - The Matrix
Please no
i'm a transhumanist and I 100% support people farming by machines
ehhh, not likely to happen, if it does people won't accept it. they'll just be stubborn. what will probably happen is pregnant women who may lose their fetus could use these wombs to keep them alive until they're developed enough to then be "born"
@@coagulatedsalts4711 I don't think The Matrix is likely to happen, it just reminded me of it. I think if we were to give rise to artificial intelligence like depicted in that film, it could probably come up with a better power source than harvesting energy from humans, while keeping them in a simulated world... It made a great movie though.
to be fair, a human has to be grown before it can be born
The option of artificial wombs could eliminate a lot of the anxiety I have about being infertile, I'll probably still just adopt because I think improving an existing life is better than bringing in a new life, but just the ability to choose could get rid of that stress and scrutiny
yeah, i'm tudying to be a genetic engineer so i could have the option to do stuff like this but at the same time there are so many kids that need a home :(
This could also be the solution to ending abortion
Agree
Is there such thing as scientific moons create scientific objects only living women her brain her heart her active in womb can extend herself and develop her seed. Pregnancy is the cause of something the woman's body is doing tonight about studying the effect for the baby to me. This entire conversation and this guy is having is like asking for pizza with no sauce or bread or can you get wind without air don't be a stupid question because the wind is the a i r
@@vacaspen5038 what are you talking about lmao
As someone who had an extremely complicated pregnancy, this news makes me hopeful that maybe future parents don’t have to go through the hell that is fearing you are going to lose your child everyday for months.
(I was extremely lucky and my baby was born healthy btw)
Not knowing what your specific complications were, I can at least say my ex had a similar experience and nearly lost her son(and her own life) several times throughout her pregnancy, but they both ended up happy and healthy as well. If we can prevent people from going through the kind of trauma she(and you) suffered, while making sure they're still able to have happy, healthy children, that would be so amazing.
Congratulations! I'm glad you and baby are okay and I wish you both a good happy life
@@no_one2197 i'd like to hear you say that face to face to parents about to lose their child due to preventable complications. While i agree that everyone should stop getting 5 children, don't blame all people who want to have a child for overpopulation.
@@cosmodewit Okay, but ADOPT.
@@wmdkitty people have the right to have their own children, with their own DNA
A womb with a view!
lol not sure the embryos would be able to appreciate it
I like it.
I got it! Ha ha ha!
@@limiv5272 well they can appreciate their mothers voice and songs so i dont see how they wouldnt be able to apreciate the view once their eyes have started developing. Pun not intended but appreciated nontheless
A bonsai fœtus for your living room!
I hope they call the first mouse born this way Homunculus :D
They should call it Macbeth
We could use the technology in a future to revive extinct species without the need of a viable mother to have it. Which in my opinion sounds amazing... mainly because i want a pet dodo but... for science and all that too...
I'll sign up for a triceratop!
@@sandrakranzwinther3286 sorry to tell you but... dna has a half life. It would be impossible or practically impossible to get enough to revive one. Maybe in a future if we manage to develop an AI capable of taking millions of the bits of dna remaining in the cells and reconstructs them using some sort of algorithm, then maybe we could do it, but i bet thats extremely hard and very far from happening.
(Maybe you knew and just wantes to say triceratops cuz you like them so... yeah. I still wanted to say my idea of the future about it.)
how about new species... you know, cat girl :v
@@darkcrox have you seen the movie cats? God punished us with covid for creating it, imagine if we were to make it real...
@@auri1075 I know about the problems with DNA, just playing around 🙂
But if we could gather the jigsaw puzzle of DNA it would be great. I'd love to see these creatures come to life!
But I settle for a modified one. One that looks like a triceratop but with the size of a cat. That would make it much easier to have it as a pet.😄
The woman is now obsolete
You need eggs too, genius.
@@Fandar clone them
@Fandar
Eggs can be grafted with skin cells buffoon
@@FandarArtificial eggs
@@Fandar in vitro gametogenesis 😎
We have to in some way name them after Marsupial pouches.
Marsupeople pouches?
hear me out
in portuguese ''boceta'' used to mean ''pouch''
but now it's almost exclusive used as a slang for vagina
soooo
there has to be something to use here, I just can't quite put my finger on it
WombArt - the artificial womb 🐨
YES!!
KangaWombs?
"Oh, that bean spinning around in the jar?
That's just this kid I'm growing..."
She made fuggin B E E A A A N S, WHAT THE FUG. 🤣
This sounds fantastic. Now if they make Artificial kidneys. One of my great nephews had a kidney transplant when he was 2 and he is 5 now. He has had a boat load surgeries. They say he will have another transparent by the time he is in his teen's.
RIP
Hearing about these sorts of things always reminds me just how weird and crazy humans are. That we are just animals, yet can mimic, tweak and control natural processes is just mind boggling to me
It's not so unusual. Bees can make queens or drones, just by how they care for the larvae. Alligators have boys or girls depending on how warm the nest is. Bower birds create houses. Plants can infect the world with oxygen and lead to the emergence of mammals, reptiles, and dinosaurs.
Affecting the world, and changing it is pretty common. It's just the scale and intention tha sets us apart really
Because we’re not animals; the stars created us to be second in authority over all other living things only to them.
@@susanwilliams2392 Yeah the intention I think is what makes all the difference. The others you listed are fascinating for sure, but are either adaptations or byproducts of adaptations, whereas we intentionally alter or attempt to control so many different biological processes. We likely have more of an effect on other living systems than any other living thing since the first wave of cyanobacteria inundating the atmosphere with oxygen for the first time.
@@beyondwoke5220 Um..what?
@@semaj_5022 Ever heard of birth signs?
Damn , No child support
No alimony sounds great
Bingo
You are wrong though lmao
Child support will still exist,also alimony is already obsolete
@@user-my4lf4bx6v you live in Greece lmao
@@barrontrump3943 ok and?
@@user-my4lf4bx6v bahahaha
I am both fascinated and horrified by the prospect of artificial wombs and what that means
I'm making room for one in my closet
I picture the human farms from the Matrix.
human clone, GMO human.
If you haven't already take a look at the Vorkosigan Saga. You will be fascinated and horrified
I am only fascinated. Which means someday, humans will have technologies so advanced we can make ourselves immortal.
I’m imagining a TH-cam channel where you can watch mouse embryos develop live. Like bird nest cams.
That sounds awsome
“Look around. We’re one and the same. Same heart, same blood.” - Fives
For the Republic
The Bad Batch:
"Not so fast. We're badly written action figure stereotypes with no real character development; we're not the same at all."
That only goes for clones. In star wars, regular humans and aliens do not view clones as human at all but abominations.
Scientists are learning how to reject class mammalia, return to egg-laying
What's next? reject animalia return to plant?
Reject eukaryata return to prokaryata
@@stellarx20 reject prokayata return to funny space dust
Return to crab
@@bubblehead9548 Than we get to a star and there it is.
It’s not the wombs that make us mammals. It’s the tiddies! Just ask the platypus and spiny echidna.
This can really help in eliminating having the whole courtship dance that humans have to do.
I mean it's already pretty screwed this will at worse help tilt it back to normality.
What’s wrong with this??? Are you a virgin??
these breakthroughs give me a great sense of a better future for all of us, we will always have ethical questions of course but no doubt these will help make a great many peoples lives much better for a long time to come.
Nah, abortion has way more ethical questions versus not killing innocent babies and putting them in an artificial womb instead.
That's kind of a naive way to look at it. Things can go wrong, just because it's more advanced doesn't mean it won't be broken, have bad implications/effects or be misused.
we seem to be down right on the middle point between the dystopia and the utopia
@@samalass466 It will definitely be misused. We are now one step closer to a clone army of super soldiers.
Hope is not naivety, without hope for a better future we would achieve nothing at all. Of course our hope must be tempered with reality but dismissing any notion of what a great world we could create as impossible and naive is just a self fulfilling prophecy.
Great! now all we need are healthy families to put them in.
Good luck with that
I would be for women who are unable to carry a baby, at first.
Even orphaned is better than dead, so we should figure that out second. I didn't live with my birth mom, after all. I wouldn't have rather died because my future was uncertain than to have a chance at life.
Yeah... It seems like a brilliant answer to the ethical dilemmas inherent to abortion until you pick up a book like 'unwind' by neal schusterman and realise that we'd need to come up with something positive to do with the extra humans nobody really wants to care for.
There's absolutely not enought healthy families even for wanted children, let alone their own mom got rid of and only pro-lifers raging about saving.
I was born without a uterus. I know the technology won’t be available in time for me, but I’m hopeful that women with my condition in the future will be able to use artificial wombs to have their own children.
I always thought this is a proper alternative to abortion in the future but it has so many good sides to it.
This will be real in the coming decade
That is heartbreaking. But this is not the right answer.
I know this is only done because some scientist somewhere out there was sick and tired of hearing his toxic mother saying : " i carried you for 9 months , i gave birth to you " over and over again
Bless his soul 😌
If I need my two grown sons to do something for me, I bribe them with “birth tax”! It can never be repaid completely, and they owe me until I die....lol.
@@pommiebears toxic
Single people now: My bloodline will end with me.
:(
Single people in the future: The future is artificial! 😎
Pandora's Box slowly creaks open, a squirming tentacle sniffs the air: "Human Beings are no longer born...we are grown."
Artificial womb is a huge step.
1. Babies for unfortunate couples.
2. Babies for the single men/lgbtq people
3. Lesser risks of parent to children HIV contraction
If genetic modification was allowed, we could have help with helping people carrying Down’s syndrome genome, autoimmune issues, and other genetic issues.
Moral question is are we playing God? Or is it God that is showing us the way for us to help each other live a better life and create a better world of all of us?
This is pure evil. Children were meant to be conceived in the loving embrace of their parents.
That can of nutritious worm is already open, only enough media outlets haven't focused on it.
Gotta get that Brave New World.
where my soma tho?
I want to trip balls with no side effects
I was actually concerned no one would say it.
"Pick your sons, pick your daughters too... from the bottom of a long glass tube"
Pick your kid, choose your kin!
From a plastic jar that spins and spins!
Watch them grow , what a ride!
Oops! that weird one's stuck...to the side.
...
Shops in 500 years
Ill pick 2 sons
Why pick duaghters when you can have a stronger, smarter and bigger beings.
I wanted this research to happen for along time. Happy to know people are looking into it.
Artificial wombs arent an ethical question, it is an advancement in making sure our civilization survive longer
I wonder if we’ll be able to spare expecting parents the pain of childbirth in the near future
Childbirth isnt that bad. Yes it is subjective but moms have a lot of options in how they will labor and deliver.
Pregnancy makes me horribly sick. And it would be great if nowone had to experience that hell to have their children.
I mean even if it’s possible it’s still a choice, just how e.g. having an epidural or not is also still a choice
Frick the pain of childbirth what about the pain of pregnancy imagine getting drunk with your friends knowing that your embryo is spinning around at home without a care
I can't have children because I'd have a high risk pregnancy my doctor said, so maybe this will allow me to do so in the future.
Boyfriends/Husbands: I'd carry the child and give birth myself if I could.
Science: Hold my beer.
Boyfriends/Husbands: Damnit!
Who is saying that
It's an artificial womb. Nobody would have to carry the baby.
@@_Aly_00_ gotta carry it like a backpack 😂
@@cheemsburmbger5872 usually potential fathers in a futile attempt to make their girlfriends/wives feel better
the only place I ever saw that said was on old sitcoms, no one said that IRL
Can't wait for when we get to Biohumans Gen.
Not something to wait for, but to fear what empty things we will become.
@@dfddsffdfdfgdfg6604 Well... Thats never quarentied nor’ denyed. Designer babies/human may never be anything more than just abortion in terms of usidge in the future (which we all still know abortion isn’t widely acsepted even tho it is in use) and even if it were to become widely used, many people would propably do so because they needed to or really just wanted their baby to not have issues with desieses and so on. After all, there are people who use abortion as a kind of birth control and those people would be the kinds to tune their babies to be ”the perfect human” or what ever, but those people dont mean that everyone looking or thinking of abprtion is nesseserally doing so for the same or even remotely similar reasons.
(Than theres the guandry of philosofy in what makes you *you* but Im a bit nihilistic so I really dont believe its in any way an issue to care about, looking at reproduction and gene transfer in nature).
@@tatuvarvemaa5314 I am sorry but I didn't understand your point at all.
@@tatuvarvemaa5314 *usage
@@dfddsffdfdfgdfg6604 Actually scrach that earlier explonation.
Think about it like going back in time and telling people in the mediavel times about how we will be conducting surgeries and other things like that. There will be people saying stuff like: You’re telling me you could cure me while Im completely unaware and feel no pain?! Sign me up!
But you’ll also get people who’ll say stuff like: Whoah woah woah, hold on now, you’re telling me, that you’d open my stomach, gut me, and charge me money and ”cure” me? Hell no I WONT! I’ll riot against that!
Now involve their children in that equasion and boom, you’ll get people who are all for it and people who riot against it (for better or for worse). Now the same thing is still active with abortion, people dont really change over time if you ask me. I hope I clarified what I ment, if not, Im sorry.
Technology like this could finally put an end to the abortion debate. If a woman doesn't want to carry a fetus to delivery, she can sign away all rights to the fetus and have it removed from her and placed into an artificial womb to finish development. In fact, I think this tech would be so popular with working women that it'll eventually become the norm to transfer the fetus to an artificial womb at some point.
After the development is finished, who'll own the child?
I’m absolutely flabbergasted by the heart valve story. The fact that the body inhabits the matrix and grows it itself is mind blowing, I hope they get it to work.
Wow, it's a Brave New World out there!
I see absolutely no way this could result in a eugenics arms race of clone soldiers.
A brave new world ~
A new fantastic point of view
On foetuses.
@@ActuatedGear mech is the future of the military so I'm not so worried about that. The social implications of capitalism and having to pay extra not to have the womb fed using chemicals that make them more maliable are the scary parts... The brave new world was not capitalist and they still managed to get into that situation.
@@Aima952 Mechs are not the future of the military. Big mechs aren't very useful and small mechs still require good soldiers. Weird, ethically corrupt, super soldiers are still desirable to the military.
Perfect humans are coming
Nope. They will be riddled with cancer so the doctors can sell them more treatments. You people are extremely naive.
No lmao,is a womb,not genetic modification
Most of the things in sci fi movies I used to watch when I was a kid are now a reality.
Look like the cloning tanks on kamino
I'm still waiting on a teleporter. No more commutes to work.
I didn't think a SciShow episode would ever make me cry but hearing about those growing heart valves brought me real close
Uh oh clone armies.
Also do one on growing replacement teeth. They’ve been talking that for years but no new teeth so far.
settle down, mutt
honestly childbirth sucks so this could be useful for people who are likely to have a high risk pregnancy, who otherwise may look at surrogacy. Also it would be fascinating to watch a human embryo grow.
Everyday we're one day closer to completing the science of mpreg.
yay
e-preg?
🤣
Oh lord
Wooo
I'm starting to notice that Hank gets all the good episodes! haha
For anyone interested in artificial wombs take a look at the Vorkosigan Saga. It's a really good science fiction series where one of the big technologies is the uterine replicator and it takes looks at the good the bad and the horrific implications.
Just two examples:
One of the main characters survived because he was transferred into a uterine replicator after a catastrophic event happend to his pregnant mother
The ruler of a district sets up a baby making factory to try to counter his districts demographic problems. Every single one of which is his own genetic daughter
We're getting closer and closer to Blade Runner 😬
or perhaps The Matrix
or brave new world
or star wars prequels
or star trek tng
or the island
or ...
How cool! We could potentially use this for people whose uteruses had damage or complications or people who don't have uteruses and let them have kids without the use of a surrogate mother. This is also a lot safer for those who had multiple C-sections. I look forward to our advancements in this area.
Let's use it to create mammoths. I want to see a mammoth.
Let’s bring the thylacine back!!!
We definetly need more mammonts than more humans
@@taritangeo4948 Indeed.
welcome to Pleistocene Park
@@matheussanthiago9685 I'd gladly be eaten by a Smilodon. What a way to go out.
To temporary fix the 11 day problem, your going to basically need a second artificial uterus.
Because in the first 9, or so days the embryos are basically cells in a incubator, but once they get to a certain point they need to start receiving nutrients directly into the developing stomach.
That's why they attach themselves to the walls of the uterus to begin with during a certain point in their development.
So, a 2 uterus system will be needed.
Next the heart bit, well I hope it can work on me to be honest.
So there is a chance I would be able to outsource my pregnancy if I ever decide to have kids. What a time to be alive.
Oh wow! The artificial womb stuff is super cool! I’m excited to see where it goes and I do hope it becomes something we can do.
I want to have kids, but actual carrying isn’t a great plan and surrogacy is risky. If this becomes available I definitely would be interested.
I just recently had open heart surgery to replace my valve. I wonder what it would have been like to have it done as a child and have a valve that grew with me into adulthood? Something that wouldn’t need to be replaced in another fifteen years. Something that meant I didn’t have to take Warfarin every day and constantly go for checkups, echocardiograms, monitors, and the like. Good luck, future kids! I wish you all the best ❤️
Artificial wombs for humans could enable women to have complete control over their own reproduction and thus also make abortion unnecessary - so people on both sides of the political spectrum could be satisfied. Until they find something else to yell at each other about.
Yep this is great for all the general public. I'm only worried about what governments and criminal organizations would do with this technology.
Exactly lol
Artificial wombs also mean human trafficking will increase when mobsters use these devices for their sick and twisted desires.
@@therainbowconnection6813 clone supersoldiers
Just like in metal gear solid!
0:50 Doesn't that make them dizzy? I'd definitely want off that ride by month 7 or 8 and probably have a lifetime aversion to amusement parks.
I think they stop the rotation once the inner ears develop and the embryos are no longer in danger of getting stuck to the wall
The majority of us were moving freely in the womb until we settled for an upside-down position for a few months. Did you suffer any negative effects from being upside-down for a prolonged time?
@@kellydalstok8900 well if im hanging upside down for a prolonged time now i get massive headaches and would eventually die, sooooooo....
This is an amazing experient! Hope they develop it soon !!!
Lol, watching those mouse embryos spinning like that reminded me of A Brave New World.
Fun random fact: Womb in Swedish, and possibly other related languages, is literally called ”life mother”, ”livmoder”.
Wow that first bit is amazing... What this could mean for many people who want children but can't have them naturally is endless!
@@no_one2197 I know, and you're right. My apologies
I thought it isn't as romantic but I remembered I have extreme anxiety so my baby would be fed cortisol all the time and I have predisposition for a dangerous delivery so - yay, science!
@@no_one2197 I did, I'd rather do surrogacy because I'm selfish about my genes and I'm working to change that
So, every time my better half says she only needs a part of me, now I can reply in kind!
Woah, to build things for the body, it just takes an extracellular matrix, made with the right shape and material properties for the job.
Hands up all ladies who clicked this hoping we'd be spared the curse of growing a parasite in our womb for 9 months...
I only clicked with the hope of hearing that this will not provide an easy way for more population booms or be available in the near future, especially In light of our current global population and the rate that it grows. Nature has checks and balances for a reason; the more physical barriers to and personal biases against getting pregnant, the better.
@@melissagrant1649 nature doesn’t have checks and balances that’s why we have over population now and it’s mostly an issue in poorer countries with high infant mortality as people have more children to increase the chances of one surviving if anything this will lead to the increase in population slowing down
@@alexturnbull1301 Things like high infant mortality, maternal death because the infant's head was too large to fit through her birth canal or an ectopic pregnancy, deformities in the reproductive system, general disease, and infertility ARE natural checks and balances to overpopulation. In our arrogance and increasing disdain for the natural way of the world, we've unfortunately been steadily mitigating these for ourselves through respective advances in medicine and technology such as hygiene for medical professionals and facilities, public/ private health care, C-sections, medication, in vitro/ surrogates, etc. where accessible.
@@melissagrant1649 and yet richer countries where these things are available have a relatively stagnant population in fact some countries like Norway and japan have decreasing populations. it’s only poorer countries where those things still happen that overpopulation is an issue so clearly they aren’t very good checks and balances.
I must admit to holding a tiny hope that one day I can raise a genetic clone of myself that I don't have to carry in my body. I would love to see how I would have turned out with actual loving parents...
You might not realize it, but that is extremely narcissistic and I feel sooo bad for any kids who have. Children aren't an extension of you, they are their own person and thinking of them like that, even a genetic clone (who wouldn't be YOU), leads to some seriously sketchy parenting.
You would be a god awful parent. Please treat children like people, not as some weird personal experiment.
@@cortster12 The whole point would be that they are not me, and would turn out wholly different.
@@Kyle-gw6qp I would treat her, or him, as separate - a wholy different person. That's the point. I grew up with a mother who thinks and treats me as if I were an extension or clone of herself, I would never do that to any child, especially a genetic clone.
@@no_one2197 No more slefish than any other parent that brings a child into this world. Parenthood, as it is practiced in the western world is an entirely selfish act.
I'm pretty sure that the sticking problem - which they solved here by continuously rotating the jars containing the gestating embryos - has an alternate solution which may prove more adaptable to growing the foetuses of larger organisms.
Keeping box jellyfish, with their fragile gelatinous bodies, in captivity for experimentation is difficult as they tend to get severely damaged by repeated impacts with the aquarium walls. Researchers developed a specialised system, with a rotating current that hugs the curved walls to deflect the tiny jellies before they can make contact - in effect keeping them corralled with water.
So instead of rotating the container, you produce a sustained current that prevents the growing embryo from adhering to the container walls. This could also be used to introduce nutrients & oxygen to the growing embryo in a relatively controlled manner.
Path to hell is paved with good intentions
Pregnant PEOPLE 😭💕👍
That would be interesting if hardly anybody in the future got pregnant and we only used artificial embryos. Sounds like science fiction because it would be costly and it would require everybody to use contraception throughout their lifetimes.
@@__-tz6xx Not if we "castrate" everyone. If we are only going to be using this method, why even have the functionality to do it the natural way?
@@no_one2197 trans men and non-binary folks exist.
They are not women and still can get pregnant.
Pregnant people is hence more accurate in this context.
I want. Baby by artificial womb . Can it possible ?
I want too 😢
Me too I want to be a virgin single father and don't want to get married.
This is wonderful, if used for humans women can finally be able to pass on their genes without going through the unnecessary torture that is pregnancy, a big FU to evolution and a win for humanity.
lol
meyn won't work for whamen
if that happens
because they won't need whamin
be careful what you wish for
@@stevewilson4718It's better for women they will be free of so much pain of child bearing women just need the baby no need for men to having babies
@@fatemad4012The point is not that. The point is simple. The value which women are born with is there ablity to gave birth. Men value was never related to that. It's women would become absolute after that. In today day and age pregnancy does not cause much pain either because of so many machines medicines to dicrease pain.
@@Egg-wt1pk women should feed their babies and nuture them and plenty of women doing plenty of useful work in societies if value is only biological then men has no value ever in the nuture because they don't bring kids we can live without machine or modern society you claim men created we can't live without raising children
@@Egg-wt1pk by your logic men has no value in the world because they even couldn't create babies
"we've still got some time before we crack that can of worms" I feel we should start to worry now? also where tf do you plug the umbilical cord? a light socket?
No, in the garden hose obviously
This will certainly cause a huge problem, of enabling people to make their own soldiers,
BUT
There's a much bigger problem out there right now, of monster moms who pop out kids just to collect welfare. They beat them so they'll be too stupid to escape or make anything of themselves. The silent suffering is horrific and rarely talked about. I hate child ownership by birth.
END MONSTER MOMS
This explains the “We’re sending sperm and wombs to the moon” “for insurance “
Go science!
I’ve been waiting for the day where all build a bear workshops are turned into build a baby workshops. This will be epic
we keep getting closer to the test tubes you see in sci-fi movies
Only a matter of time before Mini Me
”My me’s are superior to yours!”
”Nonsence! Me number 4 003, write him a strongly worded letter about his poor demeaner and facual features!”
I can already hear the outcry from religious communities!
Not really, could this be a crushing alternative to abortion? Maybe. As in belief, they would rather be in favor to this specific context.
What would it matter after all, there are a zillions of things that bother religious people, artificial wombs would not be a suprise, at least there's a benefit
They'd love this (if they're pro-life, as I assume you meant in your comment), as it's everything they'd always wanted. It's pro-life taken to its extreme. The only ones I've heard against this have bee pro-choice, strangely enough. Makes you wonder.
@@cortster12 I think I'm missing the memo here. What does this have to do with abortion? Does that mean they're OK with abortion as long as it's an artificial womb? What I assumed is that at least some of them would have an objection like they do with cloning and stem cells, as if usurping "God's place"..
@@fubytv731 I messed up, I somehow assumed you were conflating pro-lifers with religious people. As I see that a lot. My bad, I agree with you then, heavily religious people definitely might have an issue with this aspect. I'm tired, lol.
@@cortster12 Pro-life vs pro-choice is a whole other controversy! Lol.
thank you guys so so much for keeping us updated
I am all for it!! Let's go!!
“ The Matrix “ may someday become the reality ! Where human beings are no longer born, but grown !
I know I'm so excited! 🤗
Eeeh...
Miracle of birth is over rated any ways. Kind of an hasstle as well.
Think about it: Farmer harvesting babies instead of crops
@@-w-. "And these are my baby fields.Oh and there are all the Andy's, they're getting pretty developed!"
This started as a joke and ended up as something that might actually happen...
@@tatuvarvemaa5314 Haha xD
It gets more and more scary how the matrix could become real...
Your clones are very impressive, you must be very proud.
the artificial valve was so amazing and indeed heartwarming
The religious fandoms are already preparing the "love" 😂😂😂
If it is a sin to "play God", then why would He leave His tools laying around?
-CivBE
Wouldn't many religious people like this? It takes away the crux of the pro-abortion argument. Women would be able to decide what to do with their body and the fetus gets to live. Its a win win for everyone.
You don't need religion to understand how the desire to grow humans in artificial wombs is messed up.
why not just spray the insides of the jars with pam first?
We should probably ask Pam how she’d feel about that, first…
js…
@Ajit Adonis Manilal no ive never seen the movie im just like this
I'd love to see an episode comparing the mouse study and the study done a little while back about growing sheep in an artificial womb?
Isn't this the premise of the Matrix? Can't wait to start living a reality simulation inside an antificial womb-type thing :)
I think you're right
GIRLFRIEND? BAH! ILL MAKE MY OWN BABY!!
Finally someone understands.
You would still require an egg...
I mean you would still need someone to provide the eggs
@@bpawnz69 Anonymous egg donor like we have for sperm banks.
Look dont poke holes in the joke 😂
All I'm gonna say, this comes to fruition, the human population will explode.
It won’t
@@ap_7 At the least, several developed nations whose population has dropped in recent years will be buying these en masse.
So maybe not full scale, but able to balance out demographic issues.
Those heart valves are a stroke of genius. Very impressive.
On a darker note, looks like we're inching closer to making the clone wars possible!
Hahahah lol so true
We reached a point *in vitro* will get a whole new meaning.
These kind of news get me excited about the future!
For years, I’ve envisioned a future where we can essentially use “birthing pods“ instead of needing to only use natural pregnancy for human development. Pregnancy, while it has gotten safer over the years, is dangerous and wreaks havoc on womens’ bodies. Should we discover ways in which women could have children without requiring them to be subjected to pregnancy unless they want to, we should consider it at least. Imagine, too, both parents (or just a dad or two moms or any other combination of family structure) being able to directly take care of the developing fetus and possibly even see it growing.
It could also solve issues of infertility if the woman has eggs but they don’t stick or come out right, and would necessarily reduce emergency medical costs (though who knows exactly how much it would cost to operate the pod).
Indeed, there's a *lot* of good that could come out of it, for people I know personally in fact. But it also comes with some *serious* ethical concerns we should probably address sooner rather then later from the looks of it. Especially if it's combined with genetic engineering and/or cloning.
Imagine, if you will, a nation deciding it'd rather *mass produce* new citizens rather then, say, let folks move there.... or mass produce slaves. Yeahhhh, I'm both hopeful and terrified of the implications.
Can they be made large enough for rhinos though?
Like what are the challenges with upscaling?
Two things to note:
Outside of the heart, arteries do not have valves, but veins have them.
Removing cells from the valve matrix reduces the chance for an immune response at this matrix. Transplant drugs that temporarily prevent the immune system from attacking the valve while host cells migrate into the valve further reduces the probability for rejection.