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Article: A womb with a view. (Brave New World).
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- Alberta Report
- Article date:
- March 4, 2002
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Every evening, before they retire to bed, Charles and Lydia Lamb log on to the to visit their embryo. "Awww. ..look, Lydia, little Charlie junior's neural tube is developing," Charles says. Lydia (following instructions from the directors of the fertility institute where little junior was conceived) hums a lullaby--to supply the required emotional and auditory stimulus.
Pure science fiction? No longer. According to The Observer (February 10), scientists are rapidly developing artificial wombs in which human embryos can gestate outside a woman's body. Dr Hung-Ching Liu of Cornell University's Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility has already been ...