![]() He was a fringe but high-profile voice in a corner of biology that itself was not fully established. She’d never heard of the internship’s sponsor-a Silicon Valley-based nonprofit called the SENS Research Foundation, whose mission was to “help build the industry that will cure the diseases of aging.” Its cofounder and scientific mastermind was a Merlin-bearded computer scientist turned aging researcher named Aubrey de Grey. In a departmental newsletter, she spotted an ad for summer internships at leading labs working on age-related diseases, decided to apply, and got a position at a prestigious independent stem cell lab in La Jolla, California. Halioua was a sophomore majoring in neuroscience at the University of Texas at Austin when she discovered aging research. ![]() Subscribe to WIRED Photograph: Joe Pugliese This article appears in the November 2022 issue. A Chihuahua can expect roughly 15 years of life an Irish wolfhound or Great Dane around seven or eight. It’s the opposite of the wider pattern in the animal kingdom, where elephants easily outlast mice, which in turn outlive mosquitoes. ![]() Many dogs can only dream of living as long as he likely will, because dog lifespan is inversely correlated with body size. When Halioua kneels, her dark hair tumbling over her shoulder, Bocce rests his head blissfully in her lap.Ī tragedy of human-canine relations is that a 10-year-old dog such as Bocce is old, while a 28-year-old person such as Halioua is in the prime of life. About a dozen elderly dogs, none taller than a kneecap, putter around on the gray linoleum or nap on blankets. The two have just met in an upstairs room at Muttville Senior Dog Rescue in San Francisco, where light streams in through the open windows and urine occasionally streams onto the floor. “Oh my God, you’re so beautiful!” she chirps. Celine halioua drops into a crouch and greets Bocce, a Chihuahua-dachshund mix with soulful brown eyes, like a long-lost friend.
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