News

Imagine that you want to know the plot of a movie, but you only have access to either the visuals or the sound. With visuals ...
A six-legged mouse embryo, with extra limbs in place of genitals, has been engineered by scientists. It sounds like sci-fi, we know – but the curious creature, which also has several of its ...
In a massive breakthrough, microgravity was no match for mouse embryos aboard the ISS. By Tim Newcomb Published: Oct 31, 2023 10:00 AM EDT Save Article Arnanzung // Getty Images ...
To find the answer, frozen mouse embryos were blasted to the ISS aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in August 2021. After arriving at the space station, the early-stage rodent embryos were thawed ...
The final results showed that embryos grown on the space station had a 23.6 percent chance of reaching the blastocyst stage, while embryos in an artificial gravity scenario had a 29.5 percent chance.
The research team, from the University of Yamanashi, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and government-funded research institute Riken, launched 720 frozen two-cell mouse embryos into ...
The embryos were then launched to the space station in August 2021 on board a SpaceX rocket. In space, astronauts on board the ISS thawed the frozen mouse embryos and cultured them for four days.
Mouse embryos have been cultured on the International Space Station (ISS) for the first time to explore whether it might be safe for humans to become pregnant in space.
RIKEN biologists have discovered how tiny hairs in embryos detect flowing fluid, which ultimately leads to the left and right sides of the embryo developing differences. As well as resolving a ...
In August 2022, NIH researchers from the University of Cambridge successfully created a synthetic mouse embryo model using cultured mice stem cells. This project aimed at using stem cells to ...
According to a study published in the journal Nature on Thursday, Aug. 25, scientists have created "synthetic" mouse embryos from stem cells without a dad's sperm or a mom's egg or womb.