From mice to dogs, and some­day man: George Church's gene ther­a­py cock­tail for ag­ing-re­lat­ed dis­eases

Emerg­ing gene-ther­a­py tech­nol­o­gy could help dogs live health­i­er, if not longer, lives as man’s best friend.

A start­up called Re­ju­ve­nate Bio — launched out of George Church’s lab at Har­vard Med­ical School (HMS) and the Wyss In­sti­tute for Bi­o­log­i­cal­ly In­spired En­gi­neer­ing at Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty — on Thurs­day, with big plans to make work on gene ther­a­py tech­nol­o­gy en­gi­neered to pre­vent and treat a slew of age-re­lat­ed dis­eases in dogs and ex­tend their healthspan.

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