50 years ago, lambs survived but didn’t thrive inside artificial wombs
Excerpt from the July 5, 1969 issue of Science News
STAND-IN UTERUS Fifty years on, we may finally be on the cusp of using artificial wombs to support human preemie babies.
E.A. PARTRIDGE ET AL/NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 2017
Watching the unborn —
An artificial womb has been used to keep some 35 fetal lambs alive for up to 55 hours … researchers [still] have to show that a fetus can actually grow, not just survive, in their man-made womb….