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    Latest research: Naked mole rats don’t seem to age but age at the molecular level

    • Last Update: 2022-01-09
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    China News Service, Beijing, December 24th (Reporter Sun Zifa) Springer Nature's professional academic journal "Nature-Aging" recently published a new research paper on aging.


    The paper introduced that the naked mole rat (Heterocephalus glaber) is extremely long-lived among homomorphic rodents, with a maximum life span of 37 years, and can resist age-related diseases


    The corresponding author of the paper, Steve Horvath of the University of California, Los Angeles, and his colleagues analyzed nearly 400 samples of 11 types of tissues from naked mole rats aged 0-26, which were used to measure the The epigenetic change of "basicization", methylation is a chemical change that occurs naturally in DNA


    The author of the paper concluded that although naked mole rats are observed to be "not old" mammals, this species still ages epigenetically, which is similar to other mammals



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