Space embryo

In this photo released from the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, embryology researcher Justin Fear examines a portion of a device that will carry three samples of just-fertilized bovine embryos into space – Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008. Fear and fellow researcher Luciano Bonilla will prepare the embryos, from the Gainesville laboratory of animal sciences professor Peter Hansen, so that space’s effects on early-stage mammailan life can be studied aboard the Nov. 14 flight of space shuttle Endeavour.

(University of Florida/IFAS/Thomas Wright)
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