Posted on 04/20/2016 8:08:08 AM PDT by BenLurkin
If humans are to live anywhere that isn’t Earth, we’ll need to be able to reproduce elsewhere in space. Now, a series of experiments performed by Chinese researchers show that mammalian embryos can “develop completely” in orbit.
China launched a microgravity satellite called SJ-10 into space on April 6th, which was packed with a series of experiments. Some of the results are already being beamed back to Earth.
Aboard the satellite, researchers loaded 6,000 mouse embryos in what China Daily refers to as “a self-sufficient, enclosed chamber, the same size of a microwave oven.” Inside are the support systems required to provide the embryos with nutrients, as well as a microscope system and image sensors to capture pictures of the developing embryos every four hours.
The images beamed back to Earth since the satellite was launched show that over the course of 80 hours in space the initial tw0-cell embryos loaded into the satellite have grown into fully developed blastocysts. The term blastocyst is the name given to an embryo before it implants into the wall of the uterus.
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That certainly seems to take the fun out of reproducing!
The left will view this as concrete evidence they need a Planned Parenthood in space.
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