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There seems to have been run of stories on human reproduction these last few days....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3035628.stm
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3035628.stm
Womb transplant baby 'within three years'
by Martin Hutchinson
BBC News Online health staff in Madrid
The end result of a womb transplant?
Scientists claim that the first human baby could be born from a transplanted womb within three years.
Animal experiments have dismissed many of the concerns that womb transplants could not produce healthy babies.
The Swedish expert behind the research says that one of the best candidates to be an organ donor would be the patient's own mother - raising the prospect of carrying your children in the same womb that carried you.
He says that it may even be technically possible one day to transplant a womb into a man, and use hormone injections to allow a pregnancy to succeed.
However, it would be the first organ transplant which is not needed to cure a life-threatening illness, and there is likely to be a debate over whether such major surgery - and powerful immune-suppressing drugs - can be justified................
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http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993892