Baby sheep successfully grown in artificial 'biobag' womb

Co-inventor Dr. Emily Partridge discusses how the new technology could provide improved care for premature babies.

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[FiberianHufky]

Ok, everyone calm down for a second. This isn't a system that grows life from nothing. It uses a fetus that's already grown inside of an actual womb (In this case the one of a sheep), and it so to say 'continues' growing it. They work on this system at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and it is supposed to be used for premature babies, so they can grow outside of their mother's womb. If this system surpasses it's testing stage, it is going to save a tremendous amount of those 'too early born' babies.
Please learn to watch videos and news reports to the end, and to do a little research on your own before commenting bs and raging all over the place. We already have enough conspiracy theories in this world. It's getting really annoying.

[polioarm]

can i get put in a bag, i just want to become an embryo again. i hate bills and going to work

[PearlieCake]

My friend: "So who's your mom"
Me: "oh a plastic bag"

[mushroomcube]

A lot of people in the comments think this is bad for some reason or will go too far. If you watch the whole video, she says that raising a baby from embryo in an artificial womb is for all we know impossible. All this does is help premature babies not die right away.

[IceSlushi]

Amazing and Terrifying at the same time.

[JDemen]

Now take this research and work on creating a single organ based on the DNA & genetics of a patient that requires a donation.

[Donsps]

Also they killed it to see of the lungs developed correctly

[nozo]

Why are they always testing on sheep for weird stuff

[counttommymarion]

I watched them do it in a hospital in Japan back in '97. But they're using the stem cells that they from the umbilical cords in the centrifuge to regrow a whole leg of an accident victim and then they laser grafted it back on 18 months later is walking around like he never lost his leg.

[angelamcelroy]

🤔 Artificial womb was also tested in Japan in the 90's.

[darnitproductions]

yet they still cant find the cure for cancer

[kayleyrin]

Why has no one watched this clip before commenting?

[vegtamvanderveg]

It's just a more advanced incubator in other words. I never heard them mention the detail that the calves DIED after 4 weeks in the bag.

[theodorbutters]

I'm surprised this didn't happen already... When you think about it a womb is basically a bag filled with a liquid with a certain composition at a certain temperature with a collection of cells that later feed off of an umbilical cord. When you think about dialyses and how we can already artificially sustain life, it makes you wonder why nobody put the right parts together to make this happen already.

[TheBlueBonnetBomber]

Why am I just hearing about this? Insane.

[DavidKFZ]

This could be groundbreaking, it can be used for both good and evil and both of those are up to interpretation

[bax]

Dr looks like a very smart version of Tori spelling

[gbtt]

Is there a chance of in the future we became able to grow healthy babies in an artificial womb from a very early stage?

[alphawolf]

this is great. should be done on humans, this will solve all the pregnancy problems.

[Luigipopdrop]

Everybody gangsta until the plastic bag bakes pie