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Secrets of a cancer-free rodent

Posted by Jef Akst

[Entry posted at 26th October 2009 08:17 PM GMT]

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Researchers have shed light on an unusual resistance to cancer displayed by the naked mole rat, a burrowing, long-lived desert-dwelling rodent. In these animals, a cell growth switch absent in more cancer-prone organisms turns off cell division ...

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