A research team at Indiana University has found that blood in pet dogs contain chemical flame repellants at 5 to 10 times higher concentrations than present in humans.

The team wanted to find out if pets could act as ‘biosentinels’ to help monitor how humans react to compounds that exist in the homes they share, since it is believed their metabolism is more capable of disintegrating the chemicals.

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