Sentences with phrase «naked mole rat»

Given it depicts the game protagonist valiantly and triumphantly striking down all enemies in his path and not, say... getting felled by a naked mole rat dropping on his head, I think there's case to file a false advertising complaint with the Better Business Bureau over this trailer.

A bouncy music score and amusing sound effects enhance this delightful animated presentation of Mo Willems» picture book, in which Wilbur, a naked mole rat, scandalizes his peers by wearing clothes.

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The naked mole rat is also one of only two mammal species that are «eusocial» — meaning they live in a colony like ants, termites or bees (the other species being the Damaraland mole rat).

In Ten Million Aliens, Simon Barnes describes many unusual creatures, one of which is the naked mole rat (Heterocephalus glaber).

A drug regimen that would be murderous to mouse cells must be doubled or tripled or even multiplied 50 times over, she explains, before it would have similar effects on a naked mole rat.

Whether it's the discovery of the unique cancer - fighting gene of the naked mole rat or the creation of a mouse model of melanoma, we see progress as, well, progress.

The Zambian mole rat is related to the famous naked mole rat, one of only two mammals to live in «eusocial» colonies: like honeybees and termites, a single queen does all the breeding and the others work to maintain the colony.

Thanks to this less efficient, albeit still functioning, receptor, the naked mole rat still winds up with an adequate nervous system, but with fewer pain nerve cells.

The naked mole rat version of TrkA failed to activate the ion channel as efficiently as the rat version of TrkA, Lewin and his colleagues reveal today in Cell Reports.

That particular difference made the naked mole rat receptor inefficient at relaying the pain sensitization signal.

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.

Bodmer and Pagel point to the naked mole rat as another example of a creature that may have taken this road to hairlessness.

Scientists are getting closer to understanding the anti-cancer mechanism of the naked mole rat by making induced pluripotent stem cells.

The naked mole rat, a long - lived rodent, is being studied for the secrets its biology can reveal about healthy aging.

Surprisingly, the probability a naked mole rat will die does not go up as it gets older.

«Factor in naked mole rat's cells enhances protein integrity.»

David Grimm — online news editor for Science — talks with Sarah Crespi about the chance a naked mole rat could die at any one moment.

Scientists at the Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, part of the School of Medicine at the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, have found another secret of longevity in the tissues of the longest - lived rodent, the naked mole rat.

Claustrophobic cells Three years ago, Gorbunova was involved in another study that described the unusual way in which the cells of the naked mole rat behave in the lab.

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.

To fake a photo of an ice borer that accompanied the hoax story, the magazine's art department Photoshopped a red - tinted trilobite onto the head of a naked mole rat.

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.

Here are a few of the interesting genomes scientists have sequenced, starting with one of the most recent: the naked mole rat.

Last week, a research consortium posted the draft sequence of the naked mole rat's genome online; further study may unlock the genetic clues to this unique animal's survival abilities.

Or maybe naked mole rats.

The researchers also found that contact inhibition in naked mole rats is controlled by two genes, p16 and p27, while in humans it is primarily controlled by p27.

As mammals go, naked mole rats are one of the strangest.

As we said about naked mole rats in our gallery of weird lab animals, you've got to be tough and talented if you're this ugly.

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.

In both naked mole rats and mice, acid activated the channels.

In mice, the balance tips in favour of the acid signal making it to the brain — but in naked mole rats the balance tips the other way and the pain signal dissipates.

In the world of animal models, naked mole rats are the supermodels.

These toothy beauties are less well - known than their fur - free cousins, the naked mole rats, but don't deserve to be.

In the mammal world, naked mole rats are the longest - living rodents.

A new paper claims that there may be no such thing as a maximum life span for naked mole rats.

Pigeons, sea turtles, chickens, naked mole rats and perhaps even cattle can detect the Earth's magnetic field, sometimes with astonishing accuracy

Buffenstein and others have established that naked mole rats will live as long as 30 years, staying perfectly healthy for most of that time.

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.

The animals known as naked mole rats may have turned them away for good.

That's not so special: social ants and bees have worker and soldier castes, and in colonies of the adorable naked mole rats different individuals have different jobs too.

But that doesn't happen in naked mole rats.

In 2008, the studies led to the finding that naked mole rats didn't feel pain when they came into contact with acid and didn't get more sensitive to heat or touch when injured, like we and other mammals do.

When Gorbunova genetically engineered naked mole rats so that they could not make HMM - HA, they became vulnerable to cancer, suggesting that the substance is a key to protecting them.

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.

So the Zambian mole rats live in a moderately tough environment, but not as tough as the naked mole rats.

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

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.

Now there is good evidence that many species — including pigeons, sea turtles, chickens, naked mole rats and possibly cattle — can detect the Earth's geomagnetic field, sometimes with astonishing accuracy.

Interestingly, long - lived naked mole rats exhibit high levels of NRF2.