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- Mice sent to the International Space Station returned with more muscle than they had when they arrived thanks to a new treatment.
- Muscle loss in space affects humans as well as mice, and this new treatment could help prevent muscle loss during long trips in space.
- Trips to Mars could be more bearable if humans could maintain their muscles during the journey.
Way back in December 2019, a SpaceX rocket sent a spacecraft to the International Space Station. It had a whole bunch of stuff on board, but one of its most precious pieces of cargo was a group of 40 small mice. The mice were not all created equal, as some had been given a genetic enhancement to maximize their muscle mass.
The experiment was a simple one, meant to test whether the genetically bulked-up "mighty mice" could retain their muscle mass and compare them to the control mice which, the researchers presumed, would lose significant muscle due to the effects of microgravity. While in space, some of the control mice were given the same treatment the already buff mice received back on Earth. Now, the mice have returned to our planet, and the results are, well, pretty surprising.
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Researchers sent mice to space and they came back super buff originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 8 Sep 2020 at 23:12:08 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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