Naked mole-rats are nearly cold-blooded among mammals and highly resistant to cancer
Naked mole-rats run eusocial underground colonies, shrug off extreme hypoxia, and show unusual cancer resistance — biomedical celebrities in furless form.
Their body temperature tracks the burrow more than a typical warm mammal’s thermostat.
Odd thermostats, tougher cells. A wrinkly digger keeps rewriting what “mammal” must mean.
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