Ectogenesis, ectogenesis is actually word that was coined in the 1920s by the scientists and author JBS Haldane at a conference in Cambridge. And ectogenesis literally means external gestation. That refers to the growth of a baby outside of the human body. As to this word biobank, biobank refers specifically to a research project that began in 2017. It was a group of researchers at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia that created what is essentially a life support platform for extremely preterm babies.

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