It This is crazy! Scientists have now created an artificial womb so help premature babies fully develop essential organs such as their lungs. I think this new technology could be very useful but I also have some very high concerns. First of all the united states spends an estimated $43 billion every year caring for preemies and most of them don't make it. This could help us reduce this cost and save the lives of many premature babies. Don't get me wrong there are also a lot of challenges along the way before this can be used on a human child. For one thing the "Biobag" would have to be sized down in order to fit the premature babies. The system also wouldn't work for a child if they had actually been born. It is shown that there are many things to be sorted out but I wouldn't be surprised if we heard of this being tested on a human in the near future.
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