The Dog Project is one of many projects looking to help dogs live longer, and it plans to do that by finding key age factors in their DNA.
A new anti-aging project is gaining ground and could eventually help dogs live longer. The Dog Aging Project is a somewhat new and ambitious research effort that wants to track the aging process of thousands of dogs across the United States. The goal of the research is to find ways to extend the lifespan of dogs. And from there, we could see human age research innovations., and other projects like it, is to better understand aging in dogs.
Kate Creevy, a researcher studying dog aging and infectious disease in animals at Texas A&M says the process takes around three hours. So far, the project has sequenced the genomes of around 8,500 dogs. Some have even had their hair, blood, and urine collected for studying, too.notes in a review of the project
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