For The Ages

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210 – April, 2022

By Sue M. Copeland

If small dogs live longer than large dogs, why do elephants live longer than mice? Why is age a risk factor for some cancers in dogs and humans? Those are just some of the questions researchers are seeking to answer with the Dog Aging Project (DAP; dogagingproject.org).

DAP is the largest open study on aging in dogs. It’s funded by a multi-million-dollar grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH). The goal? To discover new keys to human aging by studying dogs, who share many diseases (such as cancer) and genetic markers with their humans.

What separates DAP from many studies is that your dog can be part of it (more about that in a minute). Says the study’s founder and Principal Investigator, Daniel Promislow, PhD, Professor, Department of Lab Medicine and Pathology and Department of Biology at University of Washington’s School of Medicine, “Our dogs live with us. They drink our tap water. They walk, sleep, and play on our floors, on our furniture, and in our yards. What we learn about them is likely to apply to us.”

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210 – April, 2022

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