Sentences with phrase «from naked mole rats»

Ewan Smith and colleagues at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin, Germany, doused nociceptors from naked mole rats and mice in acid, and found the strength of the pain signal passing through the NaV1.7 channels dropped significantly more in the mole rats.

The researchers doused nociceptors from naked mole rats and mice in acid, and found the strength of the pain signal passing through the NaV1.7 channels dropped by 42 per cent in mice, but by 63 per cent in the mole rats.

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It's almost impossible to culture naked mole rat cells in the lab, which made Andrei Seluanov and Vera Gorbunova from Rochester University, New York, wonder if this might be linked to their ability to resist cancer.

Rochelle Buffenstein, a physiologist who is now at the University of Texas Health Science Center, began studying naked mole rats in 1980 and took a colony with her when she moved from South Africa to the United States in 1997.

When they compared the amino acid sequence of naked mole rat protein, the researchers found that three of these protein building blocks were different from the rat version and one was also different from the same protein in other mole rats.

Earlier this year, a research team from the University of Rochester in New York identified a chemical in African naked mole rats that seems to protect them against developing cancer.

Mole rats vary widely in how social they are, from the eusocial naked mole rats to the solitary small dune mole Mole rats vary widely in how social they are, from the eusocial naked mole rats to the solitary small dune mole mole rats to the solitary small dune mole mole rat.