{"id":184,"date":"2026-03-27T14:24:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T18:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/?p=184"},"modified":"2026-03-27T14:24:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T18:24:43","slug":"our-space-mice-have-a-lot-to-tell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/our-space-mice-have-a-lot-to-tell\/","title":{"rendered":"Our space mice have a lot to tell!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">The MHU-8 mission was an exciting project, to explore the effects of artificial gravity on the body. Mice launched aboard SpaceX27 and stayed on the International Space Station for a month, where they were exposed to different artificial gravity levels (0g, 0.33g, 0.67g, 1g). They came back in the Dragon capsule and were analyzed at Kennedy Space Center by an international team. Our joint results (JAXA\/NASA) on the impact on skeletal muscles is now published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.aed2258\"><em>Science Advances. <\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Check out some of the articles linked to our study, and why it matters for the future of space exploration!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2026\/03\/do-we-have-the-muscle-for-mars\/\">Rhody Today &#8211; Do we have the muscle for Mars?<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/these-space-faring-mice-are-helping-scientists-figure-out-how-to-keep-astronauts-muscles-working-properly-180988359\/\">Smithsonian magazine &#8211; These Space-Faring Mice Are Helping Scientists Figure Out How to Keep Astronauts&#8217; Muscles Working Properly<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MHU-8 mission was an exciting project, to explore the effects of artificial gravity on the body. Mice launched aboard SpaceX27 and stayed on the International Space Station for a month, where they were exposed to different artificial gravity levels (0g, 0.33g, 0.67g, 1g). They came back in the Dragon capsule and were analyzed at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2097,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2097"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/m2b-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}