Can a human get pregnant in space?
Can a human get pregnant in space?
Scientists in Japan successfully cultured mouse embryos aboard the International Space Station (ISS), according to research published on Friday in the journal iscience,
Experiment, reported by new scientists, It was designed to test whether the low-gravity, high-radiation environment of the space station would hinder early embryonic development.
Early-stage embryos on Earth were extracted from pregnant mice before being frozen, packed in a special device that allowed astronauts to easily thaw and culture them and flown to the ISS on a SpaceX rocket.
They were then cultured under microgravity for four days, said lead researcher Teruhiko Wakayama of Yamanashi University in Japan. This was the period when they could survive outside the uterus.
