Animals
Gooey Sugar Cells Key to Naked Mole Rats' Cancer Immunity
If the animal kingdom were to hold a beauty pageant, the naked mole rat, with its buck teeth and wrinkled skin, would have a hard time making it past the qualifying round. Still, scientists have long paid attention to the ugly rodent because of its seeming inability to get cancer. And the latest breakthrough in mole rat research indicates the same molecules that give the rodent its wrinkles also prevent it from getting cancer.
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