Anti-aging drug rapamycin (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing

Anti-aging drug rapamycin

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Rapamycin is one of the most promising anti-ageing substances to date. Rapamycin is named after "Rapa Nui", the local translation for the Easter Islands, where the active ingredient was discovered as a metabolic product of bacteria in a soil sample.

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K. Link/ Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing

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