[steve_barham]

I'm not sure why this article has been published in 2013; it seems to stem from the late 1990s, with it's speculation on the widespread use of technology 'by 2000':

"I wouldn’t want to push back the gestational age limit,” Shaffer says. ”I want to eliminate the damage.” He says he believes that this technology may become the standard. By the year 2000, these techniques may be available in large centers"

Picking one of the researchers named in the project (Yoshinori Kuwabara) suggests that the article originates somewhere between 1997 and 2000.

http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/genbio/olc_linkedcontent/bioethic...

- describes his artificial womb technology from 1997 - published in 2000 but indicates that the researcher has died

[chillax]

This is also from Kuwabara (1987): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3619696

And some follow up research I think:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3054922/

[mrcharles]

It's a copy paste from the New York Times website.