Embryos Persuasive Essay
Imagine, the next time you want to have a child there might not be a need for a mother, at least her womb. Science is coming up with a way to eliminate the need for a mothers’ womb or a sergeant mother, in what they are calling “the new fashioned way”: growing the embryo in an artificial womb.
Doctors are developing artificial wombs in which embryos can grow outside woman’s body. The work has been hailed as a breakthrough in treating the childless. Scientists have created prototypes made out of cells extracted from women’s bodies. Embryos successfully attached themselves to the walls of these laboratory wombs and began to grow. However, experiments had to be terminated after a few days to comply with in-vitro fertilization (IVF) regulations. …show more content…
The embryos attached themselves to the walls of our prototype wombs and began to settle there.”(Dr. Liu, 2008)
The experiments were cut short after six days. However, Liu now plans to continue with this research and allow embryos to grow in the artificial wombs for 14 days, the maximum permitted by IVF legislation. “We will then see if the embryos put down roots and veins into our artificial wombs’ walls, and see if their cells differentiate into primitive organs and develop a primitive placenta.”(Dr. Liu, 2008)
The pressing aim of this work is to help women whose damaged wombs stop them from conceiving. An artificial womb would be made from their own endometrium cells, an embryo placed inside it, and allowed to settle and grow before the whole package is placed back in her body.
“The new womb would be made of the woman’s own cells, so there would be no danger of organ rejection,” (Dr. Liu 2008)
Yet, her research is presently limited by IVF legislation. “The next stage will involve experiments with mice or dogs. If that works, we shall ask to take our work beyond the 14-day limit now imposed on such research.” (Dr. Liu,
Doctors are developing artificial wombs in which embryos can grow outside woman’s body. The work has been hailed as a breakthrough in treating the childless. Scientists have created prototypes made out of cells extracted from women’s bodies. Embryos successfully attached themselves to the walls of these laboratory wombs and began to grow. However, experiments had to be terminated after a few days to comply with in-vitro fertilization (IVF) regulations. …show more content…
The embryos attached themselves to the walls of our prototype wombs and began to settle there.”(Dr. Liu, 2008)
The experiments were cut short after six days. However, Liu now plans to continue with this research and allow embryos to grow in the artificial wombs for 14 days, the maximum permitted by IVF legislation. “We will then see if the embryos put down roots and veins into our artificial wombs’ walls, and see if their cells differentiate into primitive organs and develop a primitive placenta.”(Dr. Liu, 2008)
The pressing aim of this work is to help women whose damaged wombs stop them from conceiving. An artificial womb would be made from their own endometrium cells, an embryo placed inside it, and allowed to settle and grow before the whole package is placed back in her body.
“The new womb would be made of the woman’s own cells, so there would be no danger of organ rejection,” (Dr. Liu 2008)
Yet, her research is presently limited by IVF legislation. “The next stage will involve experiments with mice or dogs. If that works, we shall ask to take our work beyond the 14-day limit now imposed on such research.” (Dr. Liu,