Very cool. I hadn't come across this before.
News does appear to be one year old, though: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/may/16/3d-printed-o...
Mice with 3D-Printed Ovaries Successfully Give Birth
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#12hype. they printed containers for follicles harvested from a live animal.
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#13first step to making men and women equal
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#14Fantastic, if this really translates into human ovaries it will greatly expand the viability of otherwise unfertile couples, and together with better health care and fertility drugs we can tremendously increase the "threatened" human population. We'll finally be able to overrun every other species on the planet, including ants and bacteria. Yay humanity!
It's just that the countries and peoples that are decadent enough to buy into something like this are all so behind on the replacement rate anyway that printing false ovaries for every barren woman won't be enough to turn it around.
Meanwhile us third-worlders will be breeding like bunnies with or without plastic ovaries.
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#15I'm disappointed we didn't see any cute baby photos of the baby mice in the video.
Re: Mice with 3D-Printed Ovaries Successfully Give Birth
#16Fantastic, if this really translates into human ovaries it will greatly expand the viability of otherwise unfertile couples, and together with better health care and fertility drugs we can tremendously increase the "threatened" human population. We'll finally be able to overrun every other species on the planet, including ants and bacteria. Yay humanity!
Yeah how terrible that this will help restore endocrine function in young cancer patients