Rapamycin extends life- and health span because it slows aging

Making headlines, a thought-provocative paper by Neff, Ehninger and coworkers claims that rapamycin extends life span but has limited effects on aging. How is that possibly possible? And what is aging if not an increase of the probability of death with age. I discuss that the JCI paper actually show...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blagosklonny, Mikhail V.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Impact Journals LLC 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3796212/