It’s challenging to sustain a pregnancy when food is short, or conditions are otherwise tough. That’s why many mammalian embryos can postpone their growth to get through periods of environmental ...

Mouse embryos can make it to an early stage of development in space. In an experiment conducted in 2021, a few hundred frozen two-cell embryos from mice thawed and grew over four days on the ...

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In a world first, embryos have been sent to space so that scientists can study how zero-gravity affects a growing fetus. The mouse embryos were sent to the International Space Station to be raised by ...

Scientists have evaluated the adverse effects of blastocyst shrinkage on the reproductive outcomes of frozen-thawed embryo transfer. The effect was evident in embryos with morphologically ...