{"id":7447,"date":"2016-12-31T09:58:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T15:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=7447"},"modified":"2016-12-31T09:58:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T15:58:58","slug":"word-of-the-day-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/12\/31\/word-of-the-day-66\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

ectogenesis<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Ectogenesis<\/b> (from the Greek<\/a> ecto<\/i>, “outer,” and genesis<\/a><\/i>) is the growth of an organism in an artificial environment[1]<\/a><\/sup> outside the body in which it would normally be found, such as the growth of an embryo<\/a> or fetus<\/a> outside the mother’s body, or the growth of bacteria outside the body of a host.[2]<\/a><\/sup> The term was coined by British scientist J.B.S. Haldane<\/a> in 1924. [Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Encountered on The Crux<\/strong><\/em> by<\/a> David Warmflash:<\/p>\n

In 1924, British physiologist\u00a0and geneticist John Burdon Sanderson Haldane coined the term ectogenesis<\/a><\/em>. Haldane was thinking of an artificial process in which development, from fertilization to birth, could occur outside of a woman\u2019s body.<\/p>\n

He described ectogenesis in a work called Daedalus<\/em>, where he predicted that about 70 percent of human babies would be born this way by the year 2074. Today, 92 years after Daedalus<\/em>, judging by the pace of neonatology, genetics and other areas of biomedicine, it appears that we\u2019re on track to have an artificial uterus-placenta<\/a> of some kind within Haldane\u2019s predicted timeframe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ectogenesis: Ectogenesis (from the Greek ecto, “outer,” and genesis) is the growth of an organism in an artificial environment[1] outside the body in which it would normally be found, such as the growth of an embryo or fetus outside the mother’s body, or the growth of bacteria outside the body \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7448,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7447\/revisions\/7448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}