Wednesday, April 04, 2018

Ugly as sin, but they don’t age

“In the world of animal models, naked mole rats are the supermodels. They rarely get cancer, are resistant to some types of pain, and can survive up to 18 minutes without oxygen. But perhaps their greatest feat, a new paper suggests, is that they don't age.”

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/01/naked-mole-rats-defy-biological-law-aging

https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/551627/animalism-the-naked-mole-rat/

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