Applying technology to the business

To learn more about how the rodents accomplish this mini-hibernation, scientists led by Thomas Park of the University of Illinois at Chicago put naked mole rats into low-oxygen conditions in the laboratory. After the animals were euthanized, the team examined their hearts and brains, and discovered that the study animals had released large amounts of fructose into their bloodstream, which was then sent to the brain via tiny fructose “pumps” and metabolized. Normally, anoxia causes a buildup of fructose that…

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