Human Uterus Kept Alive Outside Body for First Time
What Happened Biomedical scientist Javier González and his team at the Carlos Simon Foundation developed a specialized device—essentially a metal box equipped with flexible tubing that mimics blood vessels—to sustain a donated human uterus outside the body. The machine, standing about a meter tall and resembling laboratory equipment, uses transparent containers as artificial organs and pumps modified human blood through the uterus via connected tubes. Ten months ago, the researchers carefully placed a freshly donated human uterus into a cream-colored container on the device’s surface and successfully maintained its viability for an entire day.