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Generating red blood cell-like cells from canine iPSCs
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Generating red blood cell-like cells from canine iPSCs

Blood transfusions are crucial in human and veterinary medicine, yet human blood reserves are in constant need of donors while blood bank systems in veterinary care are nearly non-existent. This leaves canine transfusions largely reliant on donations from healthy dogs, but securing compatible blood remains a major challenge since dogs also have different blood types.

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Frailty tool in aging dogs digs up new data
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Frailty tool in aging dogs digs up new data

 Frailty threatens older individuals because it increases their vulnerability to detrimental health outcomes, such as falling, longer hospitalization, or even shortened life expectancy. Biogerontologists are actively exploring a potential health trade-off important to mothers: Whether the production of offspring comes at a maternal cost, the consequence of a diversion of physiological resources that could lead to accelerated aging and increased late-life frailty.

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