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Drug That Bulked Up Mice In Space Might Someday Help Astronauts Make Long Voyages – WJSU
Some mighty mice have overcome one of the major obstacles to interplanetary space flight: muscle and bone loss. The mice got a drug that prevented the
Some mighty mice have overcome one of the major obstacles to interplanetary space flight: muscle and bone loss.
The mice got a drug that prevented the usual decreases in muscle and bone mass during a month on the International Space Station, a team reports in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
“The drug was effective not just in preserving the muscle mass and bone mass, but actually caused the muscles and bones to grow,” says Dr. Se-Jin Lee, a professor at The Jackso…
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