Naked mole-rats age so slowly, resist cancer so well and survive oxygen loss so strangely that researchers now study them as one of nature’s best clues to human ageing. - Space Daily

The naked mole-rat is a small, hairless, more or less blind rodent that lives in colonies under the deserts of East Africa. It is about the size of a mouse, and a mouse lives around four years. The naked mole-rat lives more than thirty, with the oldest on rec…