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Pet dogs set to test anti-ageing drug
Trials would study extension of lifespan in domestic setting.
Erika Check Hayden
29 October 2014
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Pet dogs should provide a more realistic test than lab mice of how the drug would work in humans. Pets experience some of the same environmental influences and get some of the same age-related diseases as their masters, says Kaeberlein. (He plans to enroll his own German shepherd dog when it is old enough.)...
Trials would study extension of lifespan in domestic setting.
Erika Check Hayden
29 October 2014
...
Pet dogs should provide a more realistic test than lab mice of how the drug would work in humans. Pets experience some of the same environmental influences and get some of the same age-related diseases as their masters, says Kaeberlein. (He plans to enroll his own German shepherd dog when it is old enough.)...