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The Past and Present of The Artificial Womb
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320 BCE
The First ever recorded child to have a cesarean delivery was speculated to be the second Mauryan emperor of India, Bindusara. He was born in 320 BCE, he was cut from the body of his dead mother.
The World's First Cesarian
400 BCE
Myth of Princes Grown in Jars
Earliest mentioning of ex vivo birth was discovered in 400BCE in a ancient Indian Sanskrit epics. This age-old myth describes 100 princes created from a jar of ghee.
1537
Homunculus: the Semi-Human
In the 16th and 17th century, alchemists were producing a fully formed miniature human body and the homunculus from a flask.
1857
The First Baby Incubators
The invention of baby incubators brought many thoughts of reducing premature infant mortality.
Baby Incubator Built by Zoo Director in Paris
1860
Built by director of the Paris Zoo, Odile Martin this incubator was constructed similar to a chicken incubator. Was installed at the Maternity Hospital of Paris in 1881.
1896
Baby Incubators in Coney Island
In 1896, Dr. Couney incubated premature babies. What Dr. Couney did saved approximately 6,500 premature infants from dying. He then publicly displayed them on on Coney Island.
1916
Term ‘Ectogenesis’ coined
The artificial womb made its first introduced into the cinematic by appearing in the film Homunculus produced Otto Rippert.
1923
Ectogenesis: the gestation of human embryos in artificial circumstances outside a human uterus. Appeared in the sf essay Daedalus/Science and the Future by British scientist J. B. S. Haldane.
Artificial Womb Appeared in Cinema
1932
The novel Brave New World brought the idea of the artificial uterus to the public, and is used for references when debating about human reproductive technologies today.
Emanuel M. Greenberg patented his Illustration of an artificial womb. Emanuel M. Greenberg's invention contained all the features he thought would be required to grow a baby away from the natural state of a uterus.
1955
“Brave New World” Published
Artificial Womb Drawing Patented
Abortion Regulated as Legal in the UK
1967
The Abortion Act was introduced to counter unsafe illegal abortion. Many of millions of women now have access to safe and legal abortions in the UK ever since.
World’s First ‘Test Tube Baby’ Born
1978
Louise Brown born in1978, was world’s first test-tube baby. The inventors of the IVF procedure were awarded with a Nobel Prize in Medicine .
World’s First Artificial Womb in Experiment
Dr. Yoshinori Kuwabara at Juntendo University in Tokyo developed a system called EUFI (extrauterine fetal incubation) and kept a premature goat fetus alive for three weeks.
1996
2014
The movie The Matrix took place in a future where humans lived in a simulated reality. The human's physical bodies were submerged in pods and used for energy to power the system.
Ectogenesis Enters The Matrix
First Womb Transplant Baby Born
1999
A Swedish mother who had her uterus removed caused by cancer gave birth at 36. The newly mother became known as world’s first women to undergo a uterus transplant.
Artificial Placenta Approaches
2015
Over at The University of Michigan, scientists have claimed to made the world’s first artificial placenta. The artificial placenta worked by placing a pump to circulate blood through an artificial lung and right back into the bloodstream.
A team of biologists from the UK and the US successfully kept a human embryo alive for 13 days.
Human Embryo Lives 13 Days in Lab
2016
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2017
Premature Lamb Incubates Fetal Lamb
A lamb born inside a artificial womb had underwent the same amount of time as a human gestational period normally would have taken. The lamb was kept alive in an artificial womb and developed just as if it was in a normal womb. Read more.
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A group of Japanese students hatched a chick away from it's shell by begging the process by cracking open an egg, then dropping it into a plastic pouch, and incubating it until a baby chick hatched.