China has sent artificially constructed human embryo models to the Tiangong space station, marking ...

China has become the first nation to send human artificial embryos into orbit, aiming to uncover how space conditions like ...

China's Tianzhou-10 mission just delivered embryo-like structures made from living stem cells to the Tiangong space station. Experiments could shed light on how radiation and microgravity affect human ...

Microgravity and higher radiation levels in orbit could disrupt cell alignment, gene expression, or organ formation.

For a long time, having children has been a young person’s game. Although ancient records are sparse, researchers estimate that, for most of human history, women most typically conceived their first ...

Recently, scientists have reviewed the existing literature to understand how space travel, space radiation, and microgravity affect human reproductive functions. This review was published in Npj ...

The experiment should reveal how microgravity affects early human development – a critical question if we ever want to have babies beyond the confines of our planet.

In 2018, Chinese scientist He Jiankui shocked the world when he revealed that he had created the first gene-edited babies. Using Crispr, he tweaked the genes of three human embryos in an attempt to ...