July 14, 2011 5:34 PM
Voldemort’s firstborn
Posted by Kate Rinsema
All right, it’s a mole rat, which just happens to be the creature that’s genome has most recently been sequenced by scientists in order to discover the secrets behind the impressive survival skills that allow it to live a whopping twenty-six years longer than other rats, and resist strokes and cancer to boot.
The thing is, anyone who gives a mole rat’s bum about Harry Potter is going to see the opening tonight, so cut this writer some slack and hope this is the beginning of the end of cancer. A far more memorable way to spend an evening, right? (Whatever…)
Full story at Discover via Boing Boing.
The science of ugly.
Photo credit: Ltshears
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