April 2025
Pioneering human reproduction in space
..., allowing ground-based experiments at Ghent University Hospital's IVF Lab to begin. This milestone is also facilitating the...conditions for human reproduction in space, while improving IVF on Earth. Egbert is passionate about accelerating space...
11 June 2025
Milestone in space reproduction as IVF prototype successfully tested in orbit
...provide the pressure, temperature and microfluidic processes essential for IVF and early embryo development. The minilab was developed ...off-Earth environments. Its work also accelerates innovation in IVF practices for use on Earth, offering hope and ...
December 2019
Human conception and childbirth in space
...encounters resistance from both ethical and religious perspectives. When IVF was invented 40 years ago it had to overcome ...before it was accepted and embraced by most countries. Taking IVF into space is yet another step. Embryo development in space...
13 August 2018
NASA to partner with six US companies to develop space exploration technologies
...“Cryogenic Fluid Management Technology Demonstration” and “Mid-Air Retrieval (MAR) Demonstration” An Integrated Vehicle Fluids (IVF) system supports extended-duration cryogenic upper stage operations and has applications for lunar landers. The ...
