[extropy-chat] Epigenetics/nutrigenomics VS Non-vitro Womb.

Lifespan Pharma Inc. megao at sasktel.net
Sat Sep 17 06:52:37 UTC 2005


Its not just a womb but an interface for individual nutrition and 
environment to interact with developmental
processes.   A standardized environment may reduce the varience in these 
cues but the real job is to find
just what is the optimal  baseline standard , which may be as individual 
as the genotype of the embryo.

For test this one should follow the development of identical twins  one 
of whom is carried in the natural mother
in one environment, the other carried by as genetically distant 
surrogate mother as possible in an environment and nutritional profile 
as diverse from the other as possible.  Once born however the twins 
should be reared as twins and all measureable differences noted obver 25 
years.

But would this of course be ethical to do?

The point being is it simply enough to sustain an embryo in an 
artificial womb or is it necessary to
evolve ones which will enhance the extropy of the final product.


Amara Graps wrote:

> Here's an editorial article that should interest many here.
>
> Amara
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> "Will Science Trump Politics in Resolving Abortion Debate?"
>
> http://www.ifeminists.net/introduction/editorials/2005/0914.html
> September 14, 2005
> by Wendy McElroy
>
> Intro:
>
> Artificial wombs will be "reality" within 20 years, according to the 
> London Times. Indeed, 20 years seems a conservative estimate given an 
> earlier report in The Guardian, another UK newspaper, which predicted 
> them for 2008.
>
> Discussion of ectogenesis -- growing an embryo outside the mother's 
> womb -- may sound wildly futuristic. But a few years ago, cloning and 
> genetic modification seemed impossible. A few years before that, the 
> idea of a 66-year-old woman giving birth was absurd; it happened last 
> January. And only last week, British scientists received an official 
> go-ahead to create human embryos from two mothers.
>
> For better or worse, new reproductive technologies are redefining the 
> ground rules of reproduction. (And, no, the force of law can not hold 
> back scientific 'progress,' as authorities have discovered repeatedly 
> since Galileo's day.)
>
> (see the article for the rest)
>
>




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