chilledheat
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"The drug rapamycin is currently administered following organ transplants to prevent the body's immune system from rejecting the transplanted organs, but previous experiments by other research groups showed that it extends the lifespan of many organisms, including the C. elegans worms, fruit flies and mice"
Dr Gruber's team administered combinations of two or three compounds targeting different ageing pathways to C. elegans (worms).
Could not have written it better myself.
Is this skewed data or do a lot of people die there for other reasons?
Gold.