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Rapamycin News

Longevity clues: rapamycin shows lifespan boost

New Scientist - 19-Jun-2025

Drug mimics life-extending effects of calorie restriction across multiple vertebrate species

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Crowdfunded trial tests rapamycin's potential in slowing human ageing

Lifespan.io (LEAF) - 14-Apr-2025

A year-long study finds the drug safe at low doses, with early signs of benefit—especially in women

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$7M grant is funding research on how rapamycin can help dogs live longer

Texas A&M Today - 06-Jan-2025

Enrolling 580 dogs nationwide, researchers aim to uncover new aging insights

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Rapamycin improves lifespan in mice, damage repair needs updates

Live Forever Club - 01-Jan-2025

Statistical analysis will clarify sex-specific differences and anomalies

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Drugs that may extend dogs' lives can offer insights into human longevity

The Guardian - 26-Dec-2024

Scientists are testing drugs like LOY-002 and rapamycin to extend lifespan

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Hunting for a new gold standard in longevity

Lifespan.io (LEAF) - 01-Nov-2024

Ora biomedical’s high-tech screening could uncover life-extending compounds beyond rapamycin’s reach

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Dr. Sajad Zalzala reports on PEARL rapamycin trial results

Live Forever Club - 28-Aug-2024

Safety of rapamycin looks good and lean muscle mass among biomarkers trending towards improvement

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Rapamycin, a molecule from soil, might help us live longer and healthier

Live Forever Club - 13-Feb-2024

It could delay age-related diseases and improve the body's systems

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Uncovering the potential of rapamycin from off-label use reports

Live Forever Club - 01-Jun-2023

Friends and family noticed their improved health and appearance, with no serious side effects

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Oral rapamycin aggravates Alzheimer's associated beta-amyloid plaques in mice

Medical Xpress - 07-Jun-2022

Cautioned the use of rapamycin in Alzheimer's patients, as it downregulated Trem2 & reduced β-amyloid clearance

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University of Washington launches Rapamycin Study

Live Forever Club - 05-Mar-2022

Have you been taking rapamycin supplements recently? Please consider contributing to this study.

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Tornado, new longevity biotech developing safer and effective mTOR inhibitors

Longevity Technology - 03-Mar-2022

Different flavours of rapalogs targeting different age-related conditions

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First-ever true clinical trial to slow down ageing in dogs

Longevity Technology - 28-Sep-2021

A rapamycin trial testing healthspan improvements in dogs; results may extrapolate to humans as well

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In-silico drug modelling for treatment of stroke

Lifespan.io (LEAF) - 10-Aug-2021

Rapamycin analogs may help prevent cerebral ischemia/reperfusion injury (CIRI)

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DNA-damage or telomere shortening may not cause normal ageing

EurekAlert! - 08-Jun-2021

Rapamycin fails to extend lifespan in telomerase-deficient mice, while improving lifespan by 39% in normal mice

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Lifespan.io crowd-funds clinical trial to determine the effects of Rapamycin

Lifespan.io (LEAF) - 17-May-2021

PEARL: Participatory Evaluation of Aging with Rapamycin for Longevity

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Rapamycin reduces hearing loss in aged mice but not entirely

Lifespan.io (LEAF) - 04-May-2021

Delays age-related degeneration of hearing hair cells, still need a better cure

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Rapamycin might not be an alternative for calorie restriction

Lifespan.io (LEAF) - 27-Jan-2021

Failed to mimic dietary restriction pathways on extending lifespan in progeroid mice

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Age limits health span benefits of metformin in worms

Medical Xpress - 12-Nov-2020

Scientists link metformin toxicity with age in young,old non diabetic organisms

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Ageless Rx to investigate role of Rapamycin in human longevity

Longevity Technology - 12-Nov-2020

Set to launch Participatory Evaluation of Aging with Rapamycin for Longevity (PEARL) trial

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Improving immune system in the elderly with the existing medicines

The Conversation (UK) - 13-Oct-2020

Repurposing the potential existing drugs might eliminate the risk of developing infections

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$2M granted for clinical trial of Rapamycin in Alzheimer's

UT Health San Antonio - 25-Aug-2020

People are now willing to say that treating ageing might help ameliorate age-related diseases

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An anti ageing protein found in yeast cells

The Conversation (UK) - 20-May-2020

Works by inhibiting protein metabolism

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Benefits of intermittent rapamycin treatment in late-life

Fight Aging! - 23-Mar-2020

Minimizes off-target effects along with boosting healthspan, as studied in old mice

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Rapamycin decreased survival and longevity in mice with short telomeres

Phys.org - 03-Mar-2020

mTOR, a pro-survival pathway for shorter telomeres and inhibition is deleterious

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Berberine: the new entity that slowed down ageing in mice

Fight Aging! - 26-Dec-2019

Just like rapamycin, berberine also slows down the senescent process

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Rapamycin causes mTOR inhibition having an impact on mammalian aging- Brian Kennedy

Lifespan.io (LEAF) - 04-Dec-2019

mTOR pathway, part of the deregulated nutrient sensing hallmark of aging

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"Rapamycin may slow ageing in human skin" says a new study

Science Daily - 25-Nov-2019

This topical application of rapamycin did not get absorbed in to bloodstream

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Treating with rapamycin improves blood flow to the brain in rats

Science Daily - 06-Nov-2019

Blood circulation in the brain didn't deteriorate even a bit for 15 months

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Rapamycin shows a sixty percent life expectancy increase in mice model

Aging - 04-Oct-2019

Detailed history and review of current understanding of Rapamycin and longevity

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Scientists discover rapamycin's anti-ageing mechanism

Futurity - 24-May-2019

Triggers lysosomes to degrade harmful substances that collect in ageing cells

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Is This the Anti-Aging Pill We’ve All Been Waiting For?

MIT Technology Review - 28-Mar-2017

Low-dose everolimus may boost flu response in elderly by rejuvenating immune function

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Life extending drug tested on dogs

Deccan Chronicle - 15-Aug-2016

Rapamycin shows promise in extending lifespan and improving heart health in early trials

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Everyday drugs could give extra years of life

New Scientist - 01-Oct-2014

Rapamycin in mice The study was published in the Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism journal

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Lifespan-extending drug given late in life reverses age-related heart disease in mice

Kurzweil Network - 12-Jun-2013

Rapamycin boosts heart function in aged mice after just 3 months of treatment

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