{"id":581517,"date":"2026-05-13T10:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/581517\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T10:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:26:08","slug":"china-sends-embryos-into-orbit-to-find-out-if-humans-can-have-babies-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/581517\/","title":{"rendered":"China sends embryos into orbit to find out if humans can have babies in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China has sent artificial embryos to its space station to study whether humans could reproduce in zero gravity.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The experiment was reported on Tuesday by state broadcaster CCTV.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Project leader Yu Leqian said the main goal was to study the impact of gravity \u2013 and its absence \u2013 on early development, in preparation for eventual human settlement off Earth.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Once the impact of the force on embryos was understood, scientists could develop interventions to control its effect, he told CCTV.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Yu is a professor and investigator at the State Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Reproductive Biology of the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201c[We might] use certain technologies to mitigate the impact. This is our first attempt to answer [the questions]: Can humans survive and reproduce in space? I hope the answer is yes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China has sent artificial embryos to its space station to study whether humans could reproduce in zero gravity.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1487,84,891,1294,6875,655,50,6884,90,28111,416,217,86,56,54,55,741,71],"class_list":["post-581517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-asia","tag-business","tag-china","tag-economy","tag-hong-kong","tag-lifestyle","tag-news","tag-opinion","tag-science","tag-south-china-morning-post","tag-space","tag-sport","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-us","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}