These burrowing animals have a biological mechanism that does the opposite of what it does in humans: it repairs DNA instead ...

Scientists report that the naked mole rat’s age-defying superpower likely relates to a protein called cGAS (or cyclic guanosine monophosphate–adenosine monophosphate synthase), which plays a role in ...

What naked mole-rats lack in the looks department they make up for it in longevity, living healthily for nearly four decades.

A new study of the bizarre naked mole rat shows that the animals have evolved a DNA repair mechanism that could explain their ...

The naked mole rat ( Heterocephalus glaber ), native to the Horn of Africa and parts of Kenya, has drawn attention from ...

We expel carbon dioxide as waste. Naked mole rats bathe their brains in it to prevent seizures. The unique animals thrive ...

Water is everywhere in life, covering most of our planet, making up the majority of our bodies, and forming the stage on ...