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Healthy offspring from freeze-dried mouse spermatozoa held on the International Space Station for 9 months
22 May 2017
Abstract excerpt
If humans ever start to live permanently in space, assisted reproductive technology using preserved spermatozoa will be important for producing offspring; however, radiation on the International Space Station (ISS) is more than 100 times stronger than that on Earth, and irradiation causes DNA damage in cells and gametes. Here we examined the effect of space radiation on freeze-dried mouse spermatozoa held on the...
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