An article from ScienceDaily.com caught my eye saying...
"The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and two collaborating centers reported that the Easter Island compound – called "rapamycin" after the island's Polynesian name, Rapa Nui – extended the expected lifespan of middle-aged mice by 28 percent to 38 percent. In human terms, this would be greater than the predicted increase in extra years of life if cancer and heart disease were both cured and prevented."
The article goes on further saying that rapamycin is currently being used in various forms of drugs today, most notably in transplantation.
At this point this looks like a potentially monumentous discovery. But as we all know in medicine, things do take quite a bit of time and many times what works in one species doesn't always result in a similar effect with another.
Friday, July 10, 2009
Drug to Prolong Life?
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