[BenLurkin]

[Viking2002]

Playing God. We’ve all seen this movie.

[Yo-Yo]

"...Pick your son, pick your daughter, too. From the bottom of a long glass tube, whoa-whoa."

Multiplying embryonic cells is one thing, but providing a full artificial placenta and umbilical that nourishes those cells to a fully viable fetus is quite another.

[Texas resident]

Test tube baby. Womb with a view.

[a fool in paradise]

It’s not as much fun as making life the old fashion way.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Wasn’t there something in BRAVE NEW WORLD about test tube babies?

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/health-family/the-brave-new-world-of-wombless-gestation-1.3657329

In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932), something odd is going on at the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. The process is ectogenesis – the development of embryos in artificial environments – entailing the growth of individuals on flaps of fresh sow’s peritoneum in bottles on a conveyor belt “travelling at the rate of thirty-three and a third centimetres an hour”.

[grey_whiskers]

[fwdude]

If this even ever works for humans, how many horrific existences will the thousands of precursor embryos have to endure before they get it “right?”

[Bayard]

Soon they will create replicants. Blade Runner is in our future.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

So the oligarchs that run this country won't need to import illegal aliens to provide taxable workers to support the welfare safety net.

Now they can grow new workers in beakers.

Brave New World here we come!

[SunkenCiv]

It was the next logical step after Doctor Bunsen Honeydew cloned him.

[NetAddicted]

At 6 days, growth wad artificial smh unsustainable?