Following 1000 people for decades to learn about the interplay of health, environment, and temperament, and investigating why naked mole rats don’t seem to age

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News, News Commentary, Science

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🗓️ 1 February 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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David Grimm—online news editor for Science—talks with Sarah Crespi about the chance a naked mole rat could die at any one moment. Surprisingly, the probability a naked mole rat will die does not go up as it gets older. Researchers are looking at the biology of these fascinating animals for clues to their seeming lack of aging. Sarah also interviews freelancer Douglas Starr about his feature story on the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study—a comprehensive study of the lives of all the babies born in 1 year in a New Zealand hospital. Starr talks about the many insights that have come out of this work—including new understandings of criminality, drug addiction, and mental illness—and the research to be done in the future as the 1000-person cohort begins to enter its fifth decade. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: Tim Evanson/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Morgan State University, a Baltimore, Maryland Carnegie R2 doctoral research institution,
0:05.0	offers more than 100 academic programs and awards degrees at the Baccliorate, Masters, and Doctoral Levels,
0:12.0	is furthering their mission of growing the future leading the world.
0:16.0	Morgan continues to address the needs and challenges of the modern urban environment.
0:20.0	With a four-year quadrupling of research, more than a dozen new doctoral programs,
0:25.7	and eight new National Centers of Excellence, Morgan is positioned to achieve Carnegie R1 designation in the next five years.
0:33.7	To learn more about Morgan and their ascension to R1, visit morgan.edu slash research.
0:46.0	Welcome to the science podcast for February 2nd, 2018.
0:50.2	I'm Sarah Crespi.
0:51.5	In this week's show, David Grimm talks about the naked mole rat and how it seems to defy some biological laws of aging.
0:59.3	And newswriter Douglas Starr talks about the triumphs of the Dunedin study, a very long and very comprehensive study of human development and psychology that follows all the babies born in one year in a small New Zealand town.
1:13.8	Now we have David Grimm, editor for our daily news site. He's here to talk about a recent story.
1:19.3	Welcome, Dave.
1:20.2	Hey, Sarah.
1:20.8	Okay, Dave, we're going to talk about the miraculousness that is naked mole rats.
1:25.3	Naked mole rats. We love naked moor rats, Sarah. What they're really making us do here is question what we mean by aging.
1:32.3	What does it mean to get older?
1:34.3	No, they're going to question what we meant by naked.
1:36.3	No.
1:37.3	They're very naked.
1:38.3	They're very naked.
1:39.3	Okay, so they're making us question what it means to age.
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