Easter Island Drug Raises Cognition Throughout Life Span in Mice

ScienceDaily.com ^ | 06/29/2012 | ScienceDaily

[aimhigh]

Cognitive skills such as learning and memory diminish with age in everyone, and the drop-off is steepest in Alzheimer's disease. Texas scientists seeking a way to prevent this decline reported exciting results this week with a drug that has Polynesian roots.

Rapamycin, a bacterial product first isolated from soil on Easter Island, enhanced learning and memory in young mice and improved these faculties in old mice, the study showed.

[aimhigh]

I wish they'd hurry up with this, . . . what were we talking about?

[doc1019]

What?

[babble-on]

Rap a mice in

[Boogieman]

So, can the mice decipher this for us now?

[umgud]

It’s not so bad when you get so old you can’t do it anymore, but your memory is so bad you thought you did.

[Rodm]

Yes , The mice read the script “Obama Sucks Big time”

[hoosiermama]

ANd then he lied about it.

[Zakeet]

They need to run off a batch for this guy ... real fast!

[KarlInOhio]

If you build large stone statues for more than four hours please seek medical attention.

[doc1019]

Yet another ploy to get government money. Gee, I may have found a bacteria in my back yard that might cure everything. Just give me some money and I will investigate.

[onona]

Rapamune: My wife used to make this for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. Awesome drug product used to prevent transplant rejections. Sirolimus is the trade name.

Sirolimus is used in combination with other medications to prevent rejection of kidney transplants. Sirolimus is in a class of medications called immunosuppressants.

[onona]

And that $hit was expensive !!

a million dollars per batch. They use it to coat stents used in surgery.

VERY toxic as well to deal with. This stuff saved many transplant lives, and, made Wyeth some big bucks.

[onona]

I remember working one Saturday at the plant, and when I got home my wife asked me what went on, and I talked about the Advil we were making.

She started talking about the Sirolimus she was working on, and while putting me in my place unintentionally, opened my eyes to the life altering meds we were working on.

Wyeth was sponsoring the transplant Olympics for awhile, providing a great outlet for transplant patients to meet, greet, and compete.

Great stories.

[MHGinTN]

I’d help ya with that but none of those symbols are among the ones found on Mars so far.

[married21]

No surprise that Easter Island drugs are good. The oldest heads on the Island are permanently stoned.

[GILTN1stborn]

Under Obamacare, it will cost too much so sweep that under the rug, like the drug avastin. It was my understanding that when the FDA banned avastin for the treatment of breast cancer, it basically came down to cost. There have been lots of subtle pre Obamacare changes already. Like more years in between pap tests and mammograms and then none at all just two name two.

[stilloftyhenight]

It won't matter. If you are old enough for Alzheimer's and dementia, you're old enough to be exempted from treatment per Obamacare.

[GOP Poet]

Bring it ON!!

[garjog]

Attention Democrats: help is on the way!

[Alas Babylon!]

If you build large stone statues for more than four hours please seek medical attention.

Sounds better this way:

If you're erecting large stone statues for more than four hours please seek medical attention.