Although people-growing is probably a long way off, mice can now mostly develop inside an artificial uterus (try private window if you hit a paywall) thanks to a breakthrough in developmental biology.

Researchers at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have created an artificial womb. Inside of the womb, they placed a premature lamb fetus. They then kept the fetus in the womb for four ...

While in vitro fertilization (IVF) enables conception outside the womb, the embryo grows inside the woman to full term. In contrast, an artificial womb is like an artificial uterus, enabling the ...

Ben Lamm Another key project centers around the thylacine ... Now, Colossal has announced that it's not only made a prototype for an artificial uterus, but also used it to culture fertilized ...

Even Liu, when she stopped her project, was already moving toward partial gestation inside of an animal, rather than a fully external "pregnancy." Those anticipating the artificial womb also cite ...

This funding will support groundbreaking research into artificial womb technologies with the goal ... and advanced tissue engineering, this project seeks to create sustainable and scalable methods ...