Naked mole-rats live as much as nine times longer than similarly sized rodent species, suffer little age-related decline of function until very late life, and there are next to no examples of individuals in captivity suffering from cancer. Researchers have spent more than twenty years investigating the biochemistry of this species, in search of the reasons for their longevity and resistance to cancer. As for other areas of the study of the comparative biology of aging, the hope is that some of these findings could form the basis for therapies to treat cancer and slow aging in humans. Whether this is the case remains to be seen; researchers have only comparatively recently reached the point of identifying specific differences that might be relevant, and then <a href="https://www.fightaging.org/a…
Introducing Naked Mole Rat cGAS Into Mice and Flies to Improve DNA Repair and Treat Aging
Naked mole-rats live as much as nine times longer than similarly sized rodent species, suffer little age-related decline of function until very late life, and there are next to no examples of individuals in captivity suffering from cancer. Researchers have spent more than twenty years investigating the biochemistry of this species, in search of the reasons for their longevity and resistance to cancer. As for other areas of the study of the comparative biology of aging, the hope is that some of these findings could form the basis for therapies to treat cancer and slow aging in humans. Whether this is the case remains to be seen; researchers have only comparatively recently reached the point of identifying specific differences that might be relevant, and then <a href="https://www.fightaging.org/a…