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How scientists could help your dog (and you) live longer

Biologists are hard at work engineering a way for our pets to live even past their ripe old years. Tom Simonite is a senior editor at Wired, and he joins host Krys Boyd to discuss breakthroughs in doubling lifespans of animals, how this could lead to better aging therapies for humans, and why the FDA has not gotten involved yet. His article is “The Search for a Pill That Can Help Dogs—and Humans—Live Longer.”