Drosophila flies aboard the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft flew to the International Space Station (ISS) to perform the Cytomechanarium experiment. I told you this TASS Oleg Kononenko, commander of the Roscosmos cosmonaut corps.
The astronaut talked about the essence of the experiment. “The main task is to test the possibility of preserving epigenetic information across generations. In September, within the scope of the ISS-69 expedition session, a generation of flies returned to Earth was obtained, and another 11 generations continued to be bred at the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences. “said the team commander. He explained once again that those arriving at the space station were his descendants, the 12th generation of Drosophila flies.
Following the experiment with insects in space, scientists expect numerous studies to be conducted on Earth to determine the molecular cellular mechanisms of inheritance of epigenetic information that indicates the existence of weightlessness in living things.
As Kononenko explains, the experiment at the station is simple. You need to place the test tubes with flies in a specific place in the service module and send them back.
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