Deprived of oxygen, naked mole-rats can survive by metabolizing fructose just as plants do -- a finding that could lead to treatments for heart attacks and strokes. Deprived of oxygen, naked mole ...

Languages; English. Naked mole rats are able to survive for up to five hours without oxygen by effectively turning themselves into plants, it has been revealed. Scientists discovered that the ...

And since red blood cells circulate oxygen in humans, mole blood was the obvious place to look for adaptations, he said. Past research on animal adaptations to high-altitude, subterranean or other ...

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When oxygen runs low in their underground burrows, naked mole rats have a unique method of survival. Their metabolism switches from a glucose-based system, which depends on oxygen, to one that ...

If you take away a mouse's oxygen, the mouse is going to die within 20 seconds. If you take away a naked mole-rat's oxygen, though, it will be fine for up to 18 minutes. Naked mole-rats are ...

Scientists can now add another oddity to the naked mole rats’ repertoire: they can go for hours without much oxygen. Naked mole rats can survive for six hours in extremely low oxygen ...

But now scientists believe these odd creatures can also survive without oxygen, by using a different method of creating energy in their bodies. “Naked mole-rats are very social animals and ...

But now scientists believe these odd creatures can also survive without oxygen, by using a different method of creating energy in their bodies. “Naked mole-rats are very social animals and ...

Now, new research finds that naked mole rats can also live up to 18 minutes without oxygen and suffer no lasting effects. For comparison, humans generally start accumulating serious brain damage ...