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Podcast: Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
Episode: 306: Are artificial wombs a good idea?
Description: P&C drink and review Cream Team, a cookies and cream milk stout, then discuss "advances" in reproductive technology.Â
Ectolife is working on creating an artificial womb, where babies can be grown in a production facility. There's been some success with mice, and they want to extend the tech to humans.Â
The goal is to alleviate some of the pain and risk inherent in childbirth, and to help couples who are unable to reproduce naturally.Â
It would eliminate premature births, miscarriage, c-sections, and all sorts of complications in pregnancy. The system would also rep...