>Popular Science on Artificial Uterus

>For some reason, the article insists on calling the uterus a “womb.” And for some reason, I’d prefer that they call it the uterus.

The artificial uterus is closer than I thought. The researcher, Dr. Liu, is using “spare” human embryos which she destroys after 10 days.

Very important for pro-life and pro-embryonic/cloned-stem-cell reader alike.

Imagine the uses for good and evil. I’m afraid the bad will come first – that veterinarian from South Korea, Dr, Hwang, is probably very interested.

The discussion about the interactive, complex environment of child in utero reminds me of some science fiction short story I read in 1981 or 1982, probably in Analog or Asimov’s. I can’t remember the title or the author, but I remember the conclusion of the fictional committee charged with developing the technology in the story:”Use original container.”