Rapamycin, the Magic Pill For Younger

The scientists claim to have found a herb that is believed to reverse the effects of premature aging in human cells. This discovery makes the dream of forever young is notlonger just a fantasy or fiction in the movies.

In an experiment, researchers took cells from children who are old before their time and able to make them healthy again, according to the Daily Mail reported on Thursday (30 / 6). Cells of the body is given the drugs 'forever young' named rapamycin.

Researchers from the U.S., including Francis Collins, one of the world's most prominentscientist, hopes the findings will lead to new ways of treating the Hutchinson-Gilfordprogeria syndrome (HGPS) which is a rare genetic condition in which babies become old and growing rapidly fragile and die before the age of about 12 years.


Rapamycin has previously used to suppress the immune system in organ transplantation. These drugs were created from bacteria found in soil on Easter Island,which lies more than 2,000 miles from Chile and is one of the most remote andmysterious places on the planet.

Dr. Collins, director of U.S. government health research laboratories and scientists solveone of the human genome, studying the effects of the drug in the skin cells of threechildren with HGPS. This disease causes the levels of mutant protein called progerinbuild every cell in the body resulting in disability and aging of cells rapidly.

By providing rapamycin, the drug will get rid of toxic proteins out of cells and reverse thedisability so as to effectively make them healthy again. Furthermore, cells of the body was able to live longer. This study has been reported in the journal Science in June 2011issue of Translational Medicine.

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