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It would be interesting to see how well this translates between small, long-lived dogs and the very large but significantly shorter-lived dogs- particularly how
by maxander 6y ago
It would be interesting to see how well this translates between small, long-lived dogs and the very large but significantly shorter-lived dogs- particularly how the differences there compare to those between other mammals.
There’s obvious reason to suspect that the aging process in mice (which occurs over ~3 years) is just a different process than the aging process in humans (which occurs over 80+ years), which would obviously be a big problem for all the research into aging that relies on animal models. If dogs, one species with a very diverse set of phenotypes, could serve as a meta-model for how aging processes differ between short- and long-lived creatures, that would be very useful.