Naked mole rats, the desert-dwelling animals that look like the lovechild of an uncooked sausage and a scrotum, don’t feel certain kinds of pain — and now, scientists may have a better idea ...

October 23rd marks Mole Day in the United States. Chemistry classes and chemistry enthusiasts celebrate this unofficial holiday with activities, cakes and jokes galore. Here’s what you need to know.

But the mole -- a fundamental unit in chemistry -- is the guest of honor today at 5,000 schools across the country. A mole is the number 6.02E23 (602000000000000000000000.) ...

The molecule in question is called osteopontin. It is found in a cluster of melanocytes that also have hairs growing out of them, and it has a regenerative effect on dormant hair follicles, which ...

Researchers Find Yet Another Reason Why Naked Mole-Rats Are Just Weird : The Two-Way The hairless, ground-dwelling, cold-blooded rodents have proven capable of surviving total oxygen deprivation ...

You might be annoyed by a skin mole that sprouts hair, but that mole might hold the cure for baldness. The secret, according to researchers at the University of California, Irvine, is a molecule ...

Naked mole-rats sleep in large piles in their nests, and researchers now have a theory as to why. ... They also have a molecule that makes them pretty much cancer-proof.

Vadim Gladyshev, a molecular biologist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, ... Callaway, E. Simple molecule prevents mole rats from getting cancer. Nature (2013) . https://doi ...

UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER, BRANDON VICK Cancer often kills rodents, but naked mole-rats, which can live longer than 30 years, are not susceptible to the disease.A study published yesterday (June 19) in ...