{"id":92696,"date":"2019-06-26T02:02:54","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T09:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/study-sperm-banks-in-space-could-make-colonizing-mars-possible"},"modified":"2019-06-26T02:02:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T09:02:54","slug":"study-sperm-banks-in-space-could-make-colonizing-mars-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/study-sperm-banks-in-space-could-make-colonizing-mars-possible","title":{"rendered":"Study: Sperm Banks in Space Could Make Colonizing Mars Possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-sperm-banks-in-space-could-make-colonizing-mars-possible2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study by researchers from the Dexeus Women\u2019s Health research network in Barcelona found that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2019-06\/esoh-fsr062019.php\">frozen sperm samples survived<\/a> when exposed to microgravity.<\/p>\n<p>That could mean that sperm banks in space are possible, providing future space travelers with the ability to reproduce in space with sperm samples brought up from Earth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome studies suggest a significant decrease in the motility of a human, fresh sperm sample,\u201d Montserrat Boada who presented the research yesterday at an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eshre.eu\/ESHRE2019\/\">annual meeting<\/a> in Vienna, Austria, said, as quoted by <em>The Guardian<\/em>. \u201cBut nothing has been reported on the possible effects of gravitational differences on frozen human gametes, in which state they could be transported from Earth to space.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study by researchers from the Dexeus Women\u2019s Health research network in Barcelona found that frozen sperm samples survived when exposed to microgravity. That could mean that sperm banks in space are possible, providing future space travelers with the ability to reproduce in space with sperm samples brought up from Earth. \u201cSome studies suggest [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,1495,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-health","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}