Looking at domestic pets in particular offers tremendous insight in comparative studies because these animals completely share the human environment and lifestyle. They live in our houses, walk on our fertilized lawns, drive in our cars, eat our leftovers, suffer our stresses…they are models of the human experience that, because of their shorter life spans, run in fast forward.
Translational studies research uses that natural link to explore the real world impact on how disease is generated, grows, and how it can be eradicated…for both humans and pets.