Anonymous ID: 3e49cd Dec. 27, 2021, 1:08 p.m. No.15263964   🗄️.is đź”—kun

https://nypost.com/2020/09/09/muscular-space-mice-could-be-astronauts-new-secret-weapon/These mice are making gains in microgravity.

 

Weightlessness makes it pretty hard to push, pull, lift or perform any other sort of athletic task. In less than two weeks of space travel, astronauts can lose up to 20% of their muscle mass as a result.

 

But the results of a new experiment, which observed how mice bulk up while in orbit, may hold the key to this anatomical quandary, and could potentially be used as an anti-aging means for terrestrial application.

 

The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, began with a discovery made two decades ago.

 

“Back then, we showed that mice in which we deleted the myostatin gene had dramatic increases in muscle mass throughout the body, with individual muscles growing to about twice the normal size,” said Se-Jin Lee, a geneticist at the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine in Farmington, Connecticut. He and wife Emily Germain-Lee made the discovery in the 1990s, while studying at Johns Hopkins University.

 

 

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