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The Pain-defying Superpowers of Naked Mole-rats – with Ewan St John Smith
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Why don’t naked mole-rats feel some kinds of pain and what does this mean for human medicine?
Simone Eizagirre Barker talks to Ewan St John about his work studying pain and the extraordinary biology of naked mole-rats which is helping us learn about all sorts of human diseases and uncover potential cures or forms of symptom management.
Find out more about naked mole-rats and watch an animation about them here: https://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/research/NMRI
Music by Coby O'Brien
Produced by Rebekah King
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