Ecto Life: Reality or sci-fi? A sci-fi video published by Ecto Life went viral showing the future possibility of artificial womb. EctoLife is a hoax, despite the appearance of the future video. Hashem, a Berlin-based producer and filmmaker, created the video. Hashem has a background in molecular biology, which he uses to imagine futuristic possibilities.
The author of this video is Hashem Al-Ghaili is a science communicator with Master in Molecular Life Sciences. Thousands of rows of infants are shown in the video inside artificial wombs in a vast scientific facility. According to the video, EctoLife is “the ideal answer for women who have had their wombs surgically removed owing to cancer or other issues.” While such a facility does not exist, some experts feel that a system like EctoLife is not beyond the realm of possibility.
EctoLife has the capacity to grow about 30,000 babies yearly. This is possible due to the extensive and groundbreaking scientific research of over 50 years, so the video claims. Using their elite package, you can choose different features of your child such as height hair, eye colour and even avoid genetic diseases. EctoLife will operate on renewable energy and is the first artificial womb facility in the world.
Al-Ghaili believes that artificial womb facilities could become a reality in 10 years or so if ethical restrictions are removed. Should this technology come to live, parent can monitor their children movement and vital signs through a mobile app. For those who rather take care of their children home, the technology can be bought and set up home. Those at the lap will do a DNA test before taking their baby home to make sure there is no mix-up.
Expert Opinion
Ecto Life: Reality or sci-fi? Some scientists like Professor Andrew Shennan, Professor of Obstetrics, King’s College London shares his thoughts on EctoLife Artificial Wombs. “From a theoretical standpoint it’s possible”. It’s just a matter of providing a correct environment with fuel and oxygen. The technologies are there to be able to achieve that. There are lots of examples where babies come out extremely early and are very well looked after in incubators, which is a very naive form of what youre talking about, and they’re being fed by tubes down to their stomach. When we put people on things like heart bypasses or other organ bypasses, we are theoretically giving them what they need from a machine.
Source: HuffPost UK
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