Hot and spicy pain signals get blocked in naked mole-rats

Naked mole-rats have a version of a pain-sensing protein that doesn’t respond to hot stimuli, such as the capsaicin molecule found in spicy peppers.
Thomas Park/Univ. of Illinois at Chicago
Naked mole-rats have a version of a pain-sensing protein that doesn’t respond to hot stimuli, such as the capsaicin molecule found in spicy peppers.
Thomas Park/Univ. of Illinois at Chicago