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Researchers are planning to study a group of 10,000 dogs over the course of next 10 years.
Aim is to see if they can improve life expectancy and quality of life of these dogs.
Dogs more rapidly than humans, but get the same diseases of ageing and share our environment.
So the information gathered could eventually be applied to humans as well.
University of Washington and the Texas A&M University College will lead this research.
