2018年1月30日 · For naked mole rats (Heterocephalus glaber), there is no increase in the risk of death even when the rats are 25 times older than the onset of sexual maturity. "It doesn't matter how old you are,"...

2018年1月26日 · Scientists have long noted that naked mole rats—burrowing rodents with wrinkled, pink skin and large protruding teeth that live in large, subterranean colonies—show few signs of aging and far surpass the life span expected of a rodent this size.

2021年5月24日 · The naked mole rat likely gets its longevity from more than just one gene that protects against DNA damage, or one enzyme that keeps misfolded proteins from gumming up the brain—it emerges from...

A new study explores the molecular traces of age in the long-lived naked mole rat. Here, naked mole rats engage in characteristic “open mouthed gaping” during an encounter in a tunnel of their burrow system.

2018年1月31日 · The results of her study, published in the journal eLife, revealed something incredible: after they reach sexual maturity at six months, naked mole rats have a one in 10,000 chance of dying—no...

“I met a 37-year old naked mole-rat when I was 38,” says Smith. “I had flashes of grey in my hair and wrinkles in my face, but the mole-rat looked great!” As you get older, your chance of dying increases because more things start going wrong – but naked mole-rats don’t have this age-related risk of death.

2022年1月17日 · Nature Communications - The exceptionally long-lived naked mole-rat is characterized by the lack of increased mortality with aging. Here the authors perform epigenetic studies to show that naked...

2024年5月21日 · The naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber) is a mouse-sized rodent species, notable for its eusociality and long lifespan. Previously, we reported that demographic aging, i.e., the exponential increase of mortality hazard that accompanies advancing age in mammals and other organisms, does not occur in naked mole-rats (Ruby et al., 2018), a ...

But perhaps it’s most notable characteristic is that the naked mole rat can live longer than any animal its size…up to 30 years or more. And now scientists have discovered one more thing about this rodent’s abnormally long life—its chances of dying don’t increase over time.

2023年9月12日 · Mole rats can live for up to 30 years, and the oldest documented mole rat died at the ripe old age of 41. Even more strange, they defy laws of mortality–the Gompertz-Makeham law of mortality says that the older you get, the higher likelihood you have of dying.