SCIENCE: DOG YEAR ≠ 7 HUMAN YEARS

Everyone knows a dog year is seven human years, right? WRONG. Researchers from the University of California San Diego School of Medicine say they have a formula which more accurately measures the age of your beloved pooch. The study, published in Cell Systems, looks at the “epigenetic clock” which determines the age of a cell based on the body’s chemical processes. The researchers created a new scale which shows a one-year-old dog’s genes are already closer to a 30-year-old human. As a dog’s aging starts to slow, a four-year-old dog is similar to a 52-year-old person. By the time a dog is in their teens, they’re closer to a 70-year-old person instead of a 100-year-old.
* But that’s too hard to remember, so we’ll go with the 7-year thing.
* 30 years old after one year? And you thought YOUR kids grew up fast.
* What this means is, if a 4-year-old dog is barking, he’s telling you “Get off my lawn.”
* Did you know a DJ year is equal to 35 human years? If you last at a station 12 months, that’s like a whole career in any other profession.
* This is interesting and all, but could they pitch in and work on a vaccine?