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Leaders of the ӳý announced today the completion of a critical step on the path toward establishing a Clinical Research Sequencing Platform (CRSP) at the ӳý. The institute has passed its Massachusetts state inspection, and now has approval from the state to begin processing clinical samples under CLIA – a certification allowing diagnostic laboratories to perform clinical testing, including sequencing, on patient samples.

Sit. Fetch. Roll-over. Humans have been trying to teach dogs for tens of thousands of years. But when it comes to the genetics of cancer, it turns out dogs have a lot to teach us, as well.

Different as we may seem, humans and dogs are genetically-speaking quite similar. Almost all canine genes have a matching gene in the human genome. Given this correlation, it’s no surprise that dogs suffer from many of the same genetic disorders as human, including cancer.