Rapamycin has been trending on social media, where biohackers such as Dr. Peter Attia and Bryan Johnson tout it as the “gold standard” for people seeking to live a longer, healthier life. Rapamycin is ...

Rapamycin is a drug used to suppress the immune system in transplant patients, but scientists have found that it may have another use. The drug has been shown to have anti-aging properties, despite no ...

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Rapamycin essentially signals to mTOR to send out the message to slow down and do some clean-up (autophagy). This makes cells better at responding to stress and presses pause on unchecked cell growth, ...

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A few years back, Matt Kaeberlein was diagnosed with a frozen shoulder. "It was really bad," he recalls. He wasn't sleeping well and couldn't throw a ball due to the pain. His doctor recommended ...

A triple drug combination has been used to extend the lifespan of fruit flies by 48% in a new study led by UCL and the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Aging. The three drugs are all already in use ...

Rapamycin is a licensed drug used in cancer treatment. It can inhibit cell growth in post-transplant patients by suppressing the immune response. Currently, much interest is being shown in this ...

A few years back, Matt Kaeberlein was diagnosed with a frozen shoulder. "It was really bad," he recalls. He wasn't sleeping well and couldn't throw a ball due to the pain. His doctor recommended ...