{"id":20719,"date":"2022-02-25T14:54:55","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T22:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=20719"},"modified":"2022-02-25T14:33:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T22:33:05","slug":"chinese-scientists-create-system-to-care-for-embryos-in-artificial-womb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/chinese-scientists-create-system-to-care-for-embryos-in-artificial-womb\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Scientists Create System to Care For Embryos in Artificial Womb"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tony Tran<\/a> – February 1, 2022<\/p>\n

Parents of the future rejoice! Scientists in China have developed an AI nanny that they say could one day take care of human fetuses in a lab.<\/p>\n

Researchers in Suzhou, China, claim to have created a system that can monitor and care for embryos as they grow into fetuses while growing inside an artificial womb, The South China Morning Post <\/i>reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The robotic nanny is already reportedly caring for a number of animal embryos. Experimentation on human embryos, however, is still forbidden under international law, as the newspaper points out.<\/b><\/p>\n

The team published their findings<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>in the Journal of Biomedical Engineering<\/i> last month. In the paper, they detail an \u201conline monitoring system\u201d designed for the \u201clong-term culture of embryos.\u201d<\/p>\n

The system could theoretically allow parents to grow a baby in a lab, thereby eliminating the need for a human to carry a child. The researchers go as far as to say that this system would be safer than traditional childbearing.<\/p>\n

Beyond those claims, though, it remains unclear whether the system could actually bring an embryo, mouse or otherwise, to term.<\/p>\n

As it exists right now, the artificial womb is a container that grows a number of mouse embryos in a row of cubes filled with nutritious fluids, according to the paper.<\/p>\n

The AI nanny is reportedly able to monitor the embryos, detect changes, and adjust their artificial environment accordingly. It can even alert a technician in case an embryo develops a defect or dies.<\/p>\n

The technology is still very much in its nascent stages, but a looming population crisis<\/a> in China is only serving to accelerate its development.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think technology would be a problem,\u201d one anonymous researcher at the Capital Institute of Pediatrics in Beijing, told the SCMP<\/em>, adding that the tech could risk turning hospitals into factories that churn out babies \u2014 and no hospital \u201cwould want to bear this responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n

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