HOME GROWN: Space shuttle Endeavour rocketed through...
HOME GROWN: Space shuttle Endeavour rocketed through the ozone Wednesday with six albino rats from UC Irvine aboard. . . . The male laboratory rats are key to UCI professor Kenneth Baldwin’s ongoing study of the effect of zero-gravity on muscles. Depending on where the shuttle lands next week, his team will rush the rats to waiting labs at UCI or in Florida to measure for the first time just how much muscle mass and function the critters lost in space.
