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Anything exciting going on in your field of work this year? Or breakthroughs in science, new technologies developed, things like that.

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[โ€“] focusforte@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (15 children)

There was a breakthrough in cat medicine research that is showing promising results in doubling the lifespan of cats.

Edit: Sorry for leaving y'all in suspense, I didn't remember exactly what it was at the time of commenting, but I found it https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/features/z1304_00039.html

[โ€“] victorz@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Is that a good thing? ๐Ÿซฃ

[โ€“] focusforte@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I dunno, I had cats who lived to be like 18-19 years, so almost two decades. I can't imagine how miserable they'd be if they lived to be 40...

[โ€“] focusforte@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Cats have an average lifespan of about 15 years, so it's doubling from 15 to 30 on average.

[โ€“] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Still, that's a lot.

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