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Naked Mole Rat

from Genomics! The Musical! by Singing Science

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I live below the desert sands of East Africa / in the dark I'm pretty scary
I'm wrinkled and hairless with teeth that look like Dracula's / Yeah, I'm pretty ugly
We're the only mammals to live in colonies / lead by a queen (bar the Brits)
Most of us end up being batchelors / she only mates with three


I'm a naked mole rat, and you've come here into my habitat
Burrowing into my genes
To see what can be gleaned
For human beings

As I said, we don't have much sex / we've also got deformed sperm
But biologists main interest / is the fact we don't get cancer
You can give us twenty packs of unfiltered cigarettes / it's never been observed
Somewhere in our genes is a key to fewer deaths / so suddenly we're popular


I'm a naked mole rat, and you've come here into my habitat
Burrowing into my genes
To see what can be gleaned
For human beings

The hunt is on to establish / just how we stay cancer free
It looks like we've got a duplicate / overcrowding gene
Most other mammals just have P27 / similar in functionality
To our unique P16 / which gets turned on more quickly

I'm a naked mole rat, and you've come here into my habitat
Burrowing into my genes
To see what can be gleaned
For human beings

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from Genomics! The Musical!, released March 16, 2021

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Singing Science Cambridge, UK

Singing Science unites two passions of its founder Rishi - writing and performing music, and excitement and understanding of science. Originally launched as a side project 'Professor Karmadillo', over the year of COVID it became clear there was a need for more public engagement with science, so Rishi decided to revive the idea as Singing Science so enjoy the music from the musical mini-lectures! ... more

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