{"id":666232,"date":"2020-09-08T15:49:55","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T19:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=666232"},"modified":"2020-09-08T15:49:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T19:49:55","slug":"drug-that-bulked-up-mice-in-space-might-someday-help-astronauts-make-long-voyages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=666232","title":{"rendered":"Drug That Bulked Up Mice In Space Might Someday Help Astronauts Make Long Voyages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/mightymice_wide-00ec329d77561b310b58f89b01a7be020e8d894b.jpg\" alt=\"The mouse on the right has been engineered to have four times the muscle mass of a normal lab mouse. A drug to achieve the same effect was recently tested in space.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An experiment involving some &#8220;mighty mice&#8221; on the International Space Station could someday help astronauts maintain muscle and bone strength on interplanetary journeys.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Se-Jin Lee\/PLOS One)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/npr-rss-pixel-2.png\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2020\/09\/08\/910776985\/drug-that-bulked-up-mice-in-space-might-someday-help-astronauts-make-long-voyage?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Drug That Bulked Up Mice In Space Might Someday Help Astronauts Make Long Voyages<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An experiment involving some &#8220;mighty mice&#8221; on the International Space Station could someday help astronauts maintain muscle and bone strength on interplanetary journeys. (Image credit: Se-Jin Lee\/PLOS One) &#013; &#013;&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=666232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=666232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=666232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=666232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}