drug extends life by 40% in mice This news I had missed, and it is not just a story.
It is a substance that tested on laboratory mice has shown amazing ability to stretch their lives ( 38%).
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article published by the Republic to
July this year, taking in turn to a study published in Nature, entitled "The elixir of youth exists but has a double face."
fact, this substance, as well as delaying the aging process , would also weaken the immune system , with consequences that can be imagined.
The substance is called rapamycin, is currently used as a medicine in immunosuppressant therapy for organ transplantation.
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on Technology Review (MIT) commenting on the article published on
Nature.
L ' enthusiasm mixed with caution, the first is the fact that for the first time we can produce such significant results of life extension with a drug with potential also similar effects on human biology and the second stems from the fact that the ' side effect of suppressing the immune system makes currently used only in conditions of isolation from pathogens , Which can be done to the mice but do not render its application to the general human population, at least for now.