Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Growing Up In Zero G

One of the big concerns about living in microgravity is whether children can develop properly without gravity.

Chinese scientists successfully grew mouse embryos in space, indicating it may not be as much of a problem as we thought. They reached the blastocyst stage (a good point of cellular division). But that's a long way from kids in sp[ace.

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