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Dept. of Molecular Oncology Moffitt Cancer Center Naked mole-rat enthusiasts and mouse modelers
Welcome back to
#moleratmonday
, where we tell you a fun fact about the naked mole rat every Monday! 🐀 Today’s fact: They aren't really naked: Naked mole rats are covered with tactile hairs, concentrated in important areas like their face and toes. This helps make up for their very poor eyesight 👀
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Naked mole rats in the media! We often see them in the context of cancer, but naked mole rats present a LOT of interesting biology that can teach us many things
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Welcome to
#moleratmonday
, where every Monday we'll share a fun fact about the naked mole rat! 🐀 Today's fact: Naked mole rats are one of two eusocial mammals, meaning they live in colonies with a single breeding female, like bees 🐝 the other eusocial mammal? Also a mole rat!
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Testing Nature’s Defenses: Inducing Cancer in the Naked Mole Rat url:
aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscov...
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Testing Nature’s Defenses: Inducing Cancer in the Naked Mole Rat
Summary:. Although mice develop lung cancer from a single Eml4-Alk driver fusion, Shepard, Lester, and colleagues show that naked mole rats require three simultaneous oncogenic events: Eml4-Alk, Tp53 ...
https://aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscovery/article-abstract/16/1/7/771232/Testing-Nature-s-Defenses-Inducing-Cancer-in-the
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Congratulations to the team on all their hard work on developing this first of its kind model!
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