Naked mole rats can survive 18 minutes without oxygen

Re:Naked mole rats can survive 18 minutes without oxygen by agumonkey on Friday April 21, 2017 @04:26AM (#14163894)

Uh weird, they survive through glucose metabolysm instead of the aerobic pathway.. which is exactly what cancer cells do to operate with their bad blood supply. NM rats are cancer free yet live like one.

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Re:Naked mole rats can survive 18 minutes without oxygen by TeMPOraL on Friday April 21, 2017 @07:22AM (#14164559)

Regarding the set of things that look like cancer, I recently realized that human hair is quite like cancer. It just grows and grows and grows, seemingly without limit.

So are the fingernails.

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Re:Naked mole rats can survive 18 minutes without oxygen by Sharlin on Friday April 21, 2017 @07:39AM (#14164616)

But hair and fingernails are not alive. They are just extrusions of dead material. 3D printing, basically. Plus all hair has a growth limit after which it's discarded. Head hair of course has a longer limit than other hair.

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Re:Naked mole rats can survive 18 minutes without oxygen by agumonkey on Friday April 21, 2017 @07:47AM (#14164651)

They don't degenerate, translocate or interfere negatively (although they can curl to the point of biting back). Also these cell don't adapt.

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Re:Naked mole rats can survive 18 minutes without oxygen by nolok on Friday April 21, 2017 @06:32AM (#14164359)

> NM rats are cancer free yet live like one.

Well you know what they say; if you can't beat them, join them.

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