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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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