Looking around, I find many things relevant to cloning and biotech experiments, which inevitably will be a big part of the future human world picture.

Lazal just recently brought a "brave new Japan" topic to TT abortion, which discusses raising a foetus in a bottle.

I decided to favor this sleepy forum with the seed link, whatever.

It's probably better for a z/e/f to be raised the first 9 months in a cow than in a bottle, in my ever so humble opinion.

http://www.globalchange.com/cowbison.htm

Cow to give birth to a bison

Hijacking a womb by one species for another

"Scientists at Massachusetts Advances Cell Technology (ACT) have succeeded in cloning a gaur, an ox-line animal at threat of extinction in Southern Asia. They used the "Dolly the sheep" animal cloning technique to create 81 cloned embryos after 692 attempts using gaur skin cells and cow's eggs. These cloned embryos were then implanted into cows, with 8 pregnancies, five miscarriages and three expected live births. (Source Guardian 7 October 2000)

The work is similar to that carried out by Jose Cibelli in the same institute four years earlier, where he used his own skin cells and a cow's egg from which the nucleus had been removed. The result was a developing ball of cells which was genetically his own identikit clone. He destroyed it and kept quiet for several years. (see feature and discussion )