Scientists have discovered how naked mole-rats can survive without oxygen for a really long time – Quartz


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Scientists have discovered how naked mole-rats can survive without oxygen for a really long time
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Without it, the naked mole-rats switch their supply of energy from glucose sugars, which is what humans and all other mammals use, to fructose. That’s the sugars that plants use. (Glucose needs oxygen to be turned into energy but fructose doesn’t.) In
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