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 ...

Animal studies say rapamycin can slow aging – but does it work in humans? A new review finds the evidence for the off-label, low-dose use of the drug in healthy adults is thin, inconsistent, and far ...

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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Rapamycin has been hyped as a longevity breakthrough and even the fountain of youth, but new research says the excitement is moving faster than the science. A review from George Washington University ...

Infertility due to aging is a tough problem to solve. Ovaries start with a specific reserve of eggs. As you get older, this reserve diminishes until, eventually, it is completely gone. What treatments ...

The hype around the off-label use of the immunosuppressant rapamycin to prevent aging and increase longevity could be unfounded. This is the warning of researchers who have critically explored ...

Rapamycin and its analogs are clinically important macrolide compounds produced by Streptomyces hygroscopicus. They exhibit antifungal, immunosuppressive, antitumor, neuroprotective and antiaging ...

Most current medicines are derived from naturally occurring small molecules. Yet the lack of a systematic method for producing diverse nature-inspired small molecules has prevented the development of ...