Artificial reproduction technologies (RTs) - all the way to the artificial womb?

Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 359-365

  Simonstein, Frida ^a,b,c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b Emek Yezreel College   (Israel)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Artificial reproduction technologies; Artificial womb; Ectogenesis; Embryology; Gynecology; Human genome project; Neo natal care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ECTOGENESIS; EMBRYO RESEARCH; EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; FETAL STEM CELL; GYNECOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME PROJECT; INFERTILITY THERAPY; LEGAL ASPECT; NEONATOLOGY; NEWBORN; PHILOSOPHY; PREGNANCY;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ECTOGENESIS; EMBRYO RESEARCH; FEMALE; FETAL STEM CELLS; GYNECOLOGY; HUMAN GENOME PROJECT; HUMANS; INFANT, EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; NEONATOLOGY; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED;

EID: 34247282101     PISSN: 13867423     EISSN: 15728633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11019-006-0005-4     Document Type: Article

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