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title: ""..Naked mole rats seem to flout the Gompertz law, a mathematical…"
date: 2018-02-16
source: facebook
type: Archer T. Ships updated his status.
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# "..Naked mole rats seem to flout the Gompertz law, a mathematical…

*February 16, 2018 · Facebook*

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\"..Naked mole rats seem to flout the Gompertz law, a mathematical equation that describes aging. In 1825, British mathematician Benjamin Gompertz found that the risk of dying rises exponentially with age; in humans, for instance, it doubles roughly every 8 years after the age of 30.\
..After they reached sexual maturity at 6 months of age, each naked mole rat's daily chance of dying was a little more than one in 10,000. It stayed the same the rest of their lives and even went down a little.\
..Studies have shown that naked mole rats have very active DNA repair and high levels of chaperones, proteins that help other proteins fold correctly.\"\
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Via Christine Peterson
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