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http://www.nature.com/news/pet-dogs-set-to-test-anti-ageing-drug-1.16237
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.)...