What an artificial womb may look like in the future
Hendrik-Jan GrievinkIn the future, artificial wombs could replace incubators as they mimic the natural environment of the female uterus. But what will these devices look like?
In the future, artificial wombs could replace incubators as they mimic the natural environment of the female uterus. But what will these devices look like?
The artificial womb is on the verge of becoming a reality, but how it will affect our culture is for us to decide.
“Within a few years it will be possible for a premature baby to continue to mature in an artificial womb,” says gynecologist Guid Oei. It is therefore that the Artificial Womb: …
Hooray! The team of researchers at the Eindhoven University of Technology (whom we previously collaborated with to design a prototype for an artificial womb ) has been awarded a …
NNN is currently doing a preliminary research into the idea of the artificial womb. This timeline will help you navigate through the investigation.
Where contraceptives such as the pill disconnect sex from reproduction, in vitro fertilisation disconnects contraception from sex, and the artificial womb would disconnect the …
Researchers in Tokyo have developed an artificial womb (for goats).
A lamb born at the equivalent of 23 weeks in a human gestational period was kept alive in an artificial womb and developed just as if it was in a normal womb.
In 1955 Emanuel M. Greenberg patented his Illustration of an artificial womb, his invention contains all the apparatus he thought would be required to grow a baby.
We published a timeline series to explore medical, cultural and technological developments in relation to the ectogenesis concept.
Now that the team of researchers at the Eindhoven University of Technology (whom we previously collaborated with to design a prototype for an artificial womb ) has been awarded a …
In 1916 the artificial womb made its first appearance on the big screen in the movie "Homunculus" by Otto Rippert.
In year 400BCE in ancient Indian Sanskrit epics, 100 princes were created from a jar of ghee.
On August 8, NNN gave a workshop at BioClub Tokyo to share some insights on the future of technologies concerning human reproduction, sexuality and relationships.
Humanity is facing the disconnection between biological reproduction and the body, facilitated by the emerging technology of the Artificial Womb. Envisioned in bleak science …
The emerging technology of the artificial womb confronts us with a series of moral and societal questions. How to cope with that? Join us on 29 March at Eindhoven University of …
In 1996, Yoshinori Kuwabara at Juntendo University in Tokyo incubated a premature goat fetus by using extrauterine fetal incubation.
At Border Sessions Festival in the Hague a workshop was hosted by Next Nature Network on the artificial womb.
The term "ecotogenesis" was first coined in 1923 in "Daedalus".
Dear Louise Brown, On behalf of the future I would like to congratulate you on your birthday. It has been 40 years that you where born into this world on July 25th 1978, …
In 16th and 17th centuries, some medical theory believed that a miniature human body can be produced in a flask by an alchemist.
In 1896 Dr Couney incubated premature babies. He saved at least 6.500 premature infants from death by putting them on display in Coney Island.
In 1978, the world's first test-tube baby was born, her name is Louise Brown.
The movie The Matrix brought ectogenesis to the public eye.
A Swedish woman who had her uterus removed due to cancer in her twenties gave birth to her own child as the world's first person to undergo a uterus transplant. And the donor? Her own mother.
In 2015, a group of scientists from the University of Michigan claimed to have made the world's first artificial placenta.
In 2016 a team of biologists has successfully kept a human embryo alive in the lab for 13 days, breaking the previous record of nine days.
Aldous Huxley published Brave New World in 1932, bringing the idea of the artificial uterus to the big audience.
French performance artist hatches 10 hen's eggs in Palais de Tokyo.
Meet the teledildonics, an ingenious species of bi-directionally controlled sextoys from the future, available today. These touch emulating vibrators find each other on social sex …