Researchers at the University of Washington's Dog Aging Project gave rapamycin to 16 dogs and imaged their hearts. Excited but also skeptical, Anderson and Godfrey went online and ran across Kaeberlein and the Aging Dog Project, which was recruiting canine subjects for the rapamycin research. "Why not have your dog live longer if you can?" He's so convinced that he gave a low dose of rapamycin to his own dog, coincidentally named MoMo. He doesn't want Momo and Sherman's seeming success to "encourage dog owners to go off to their veterinarians and demand rapamycin."

Source: CNN October 06, 2016 10:18 UTC