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Six Days of Ectogenesis at Six Days of Life
In 2002, Dr. Hung-Ching Liu and Her Team at the Cornell University Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility Engineered a Successful Artificial Womb
- Using tissue samples from cultured endometrial cells from a human donor.
- The tissue sample was then engineered to form the shape of a natural uterus, human embryos were implanted into the tissue.
- The embryos correctly implanted into the artificial uterus' lining and began to grow.
- Dr. Liu's experiments were halted after six days, to stay within the permitted legal limits of in vitro fertilization (IVF) legislation in the United States.