Significats de naked mole en anglès

Like short-lived mice, the cells of naked mole rats are suffused with free-floating, cell-damaging oxygen free radicals.

Something like a naked mole rat, maybe.

These proteins inactivate genes that suppress cancer, yet still naked mole rat cells did not show uncontrolled growth.

Don't let its ridiculous appearance fool you: the naked mole rat is a superhero of the animal kingdom.

We pass blue duikers, bongos, and something called a naked mole rat that doesn't come out of its cave.

I'm okay with one or two people, but more than that and I turn into a naked mole rat.

Corned-beef legs the country over have been unsheathed from jeans and screeched into the light like naked mole rats.

If that weren't enough, naked mole rats don't get cancer, and cancer researchers are eager to find out why.

Beavers and gray squirrels last a couple of decades, but naked mole rats outlive those larger animals by 10 years.

To test his idea works, his team is using a similar approach to engineer mice with traits of naked mole rats.

He started the project a decade ago, photographing a lowly naked mole rat at the Lincoln (Nebraska) Children's Zoo.

But when they grew naked mole rat cells in a lab dish, they noticed that cells wouldn't get too close together.

Among animals that live in highly organized groups, such as termites, snapping shrimp, wolves, and naked mole rats, only a few individuals breed.

The naked mole rat's powerful, protruding teeth are great for burrowing -but digging with their mouths makes it easy to inhale dirt.

Find out more about an equally odd underground animal, the naked mole rat, in our story: Eight ugly animals we should save anyway.

The year's highlights include studies of oxidation damage in the very-long-lived naked mole-rat, and of caloric restriction in monkeys, humans, and growth hormone-unresponsive mice.