Anti-aging

Easter Island, in the South Pacific, is where scientists from the University of Montreal in 1964 discovered a fungicide that 35 years later became a human immunosuppressant used in organ transplants.  Its name is rapamycin.  Now, a Boston biotech, “resTORbio,” suspects that a mild suppression of immune response could delay aging, as greater inflammation is associated with growing older.  This piece makes a possible case for low dose rapamycin as an anti-aging drug, though it says nothing about another effect, disturbing blood glucose control in causing diabetes.     MORE

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