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Mouse 'Hotel' in Space Receives First Rodent Guests

Yesterday, six mice boarded the International Space Station to boldly participate in an Italian Space Agency-sponsored study of bone degeneration, Space.com reports. These six will be the first rodents to spend an extended period of time on the space station, where they will be housed and studied until November. Three of those space varmints bear a gene that, scientists believe, fights ...