Death is temporary - the resurrection of the naked mole rat
Imagine putting 100 mice in a shoebox, taping the box shut and burying it a metre underground. The result should be obvious – 100 dead mice.
From left to right: Dr Heike Lutermann, Prof Nigel Bennett, Prof Gary Lewin, Prof Thom Park and Karlien Debus, a Belgian postdoc with the Max Delbrück Institute in Berlin.
The naked mole rat.
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