Anti-aging Rapamycin drug update

CNN explores the decade of research on Rapamycin and its potential as anti-aging drug. It has been administered to dogs with good results and to a small number of human subjects. “It’s been remarkable,” Paola Anderson said as she watched Momo, her 13-year-old white Pomsky, run around the backyard, keeping up with dogs a third…

Brief rapamycin therapy in middle-aged mice extends lives

Geroscience researchers studying the biology of aging briefly treated middle-aged mice with the drug rapamycin to gauge the long-term effects of short-term therapy on health and longevity. Rapamycin, approved by the Food & Drug Administration for certain organ transplant recipients, is already known to extend life in mice and delay some age-related problems in rodents…