Want your four-legged canine friend to live a few years longer? Researchers are working to make that happen with a pill.
The Dog Aging Project out of the University of Washington is on a mission to find the inner workings of the aging process in dogs and learn how to slow it down.
Since dogs age roughly seven times the rate of humans, the window for understanding how dogs age and develop disease is significantly smaller, according to the study published on Feb. 2 in Nature. The study also includes researchers at the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences.
If an owner consents to participate in the clinical trial, their dog will be given either a placebo or the rapamycin to take over time and will have their data recorded annually.