naked mole rat

1 But the cell's ability to make a difference in the animal's longevity was still too tiny to explain why naked mole rats live so much longer than other rodents.

2 These include such animals as the bowhead whale—with its 200-year lifespan—and the naked mole rat—which can live 30 years, while similar rodents live just a few.

3 To figure out how to stop the cellular aging process in its tracks, humans need to be a bit more like a naked mole rat.

4 On this day, the Underzone closed as keepers introduced a new colony of naked mole rats.

5 After the algorithms suggested that naked mole rat colonies all had distinct dialects, Dr. Barker and her colleagues confirmed that the rodents were far more likely to respond to soft chirps from members of their own colonies than those from foreign ones.

6 So what does kill a naked mole rat?

7 And the ice borer itself was just a fantastic twist on a hardly more believable animal, the Namibian naked mole rat, a nearly blind mammal that has a social structure like an ant’s.

8 Researchers estimate that only one of every 15 of a naked mole rat's sperm can actually swim.

9 One obstacle is that little is known about the naked mole rat's genes.

困难之一就是对裸鼹鼠的基因知之甚少.