When thinking of these technical inventions, makes how wonder that scientists get such amazing ideas. Another thing the updation in that technology with more useful amenties is also amazing.
It is our cultural beauty that we praise this land as mother earth like our own mother. There are many things that happens naturally, but today technology has changed everything, today’s inventions are challenging that natural phenomenon.
Today am going to tell about one such technology that is ‘Artificial Uterus’.
An artificial womb or artificial uterus is a device that would allow for extracorporeal pregnancy by growing a fetus outside the body of an organism that would normally carry the fetus to term.
An artificial uterus, as a replacement organ, would have many applications. It could be used to assist male or female couples in the development of a fetus. This can potentially be performed as a switch from a natural uterus to an artificial uterus, thereby moving the threshold of fetal viability to a much earlier stage of pregnancy.
An artificial uterus could also help make fetal surgery procedures at an early stage an option instead of having to postpone them until term of pregnancy.
An artificial uterus, sometimes referred to as an ‘exowomb’, would have to provide nutrients and oxygen to nurture a fetus, as well as dispose of waste material.
A woman may still supply nutrients and dispose of waste products if the artificial uterus is connected to her. She may also provide immune protection against diseases by passing of IgG antibodies to the embryo or fetus.
Artificial supply and disposal have the potential advantage of allowing the fetus to develop in an environment that is not influenced by the presence of disease, environmental pollutants, alcohol, or drugs which a human may have in the circulatory system.There is no risk of an immune reaction towards the embryo or fetus that could otherwise arise from insufficient gestational immune tolerance.
In a normal uterus, the myometrium of the uterine wall functions to expel the fetus at the end of a pregnancy, and the endometrium plays a role in forming the placenta. An artificial uterus may include components of equivalent function. Methods have been considered to connect an artificial placenta and other “inner” components directly to an external circulation.
The use of artificial wombs was first termed ectogenesis by JBS Haldane in 1923.
Artificial uteri may expand the range of fetal viability, raising questions about the role that fetal viability plays within abortion law. If transferring the fetus from a woman’s womb to an artificial uterus is possible, the choice to terminate a pregnancy in this way could provide an alternative to aborting the foetus.