Nature

This wrinkly rodent barely ages and almost never gets cancer

Naked mole rats live up to 30 years — roughly ten times longer than similarly sized rodents — while showing little decline in health, fertility or metabolism as they age. Their tissue produces an unusually heavy sugar molecule that appears to stop cancerous cells from crowding together, and induced tumours in lab studies routinely fail to take hold.

Xiao Tian, Andrei Seluanov & Vera Gorbunova et al., High-molecular-mass Hyaluronan Mediates the Cancer Resistance of the Naked Mole Rat — Nature, 2013

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