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Easter Island drug 'adds decade to life'
The Sun ^
| 7/9/2009
| Emma Morton
Posted on 07/09/2009 1:04:01 PM PDT by djf
SCIENTISTS say they have discovered a wonder drug that could help people live up to ten years longer.
Rapamycin is a bacterial product found in soil samples on remote Easter Island in the South Pacific.
It works by inhibiting a protein called TOR that plays a key role in cell growth.
Rapamycin is widely used to stop transplant patients rejecting their new organs.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: easterisland; rapamycin; rapanui
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posted on
07/09/2009 1:04:04 PM PDT
by
djf
To: neverdem; All
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posted on
07/09/2009 1:05:07 PM PDT
by
djf
(Go tell everybody its calm before the storm Can you hear the distant thunder baby....)
To: djf
Do you take them with the brazilian berries and live forever?
What happens when you dig up all the island?
3
posted on
07/09/2009 1:05:59 PM PDT
by
edcoil
(If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
To: djf
Who the hell wants to live ten years longer?
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posted on
07/09/2009 1:06:23 PM PDT
by
Soothesayer
(The United States of America Rest in Peace November 4 2008)
To: djf
Sorry did they ever figure out the deal with those statues?
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posted on
07/09/2009 1:06:34 PM PDT
by
exist
To: Soothesayer
> Who the hell wants to live ten years longer?
Michael Jackson?
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posted on
07/09/2009 1:07:39 PM PDT
by
DieHard the Hunter
(Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fà g am bealach.)
To: djf
One side effect, after 150 years your head grows huge and you turn to stone.
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posted on
07/09/2009 1:08:28 PM PDT
by
TC Rider
(The United States Constitution - 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
To: exist
Yes, they took the miracle drug. After a couple of hundred years your hear becomes very enlarged and fossilizes. It’s just one of the side effects but what the hey?
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posted on
07/09/2009 1:09:17 PM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(It takes a Kenyan village to raise a US president.)
To: djf
Side effects are not completely known:
To: exist
Yes, they took the miracle drug. After a couple of hundred years your head becomes very enlarged and fossilizes. It’s just one of the side effects but what the hey?
10
posted on
07/09/2009 1:09:34 PM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(It takes a Kenyan village to raise a US president.)
To: BipolarBob
11
posted on
07/09/2009 1:10:08 PM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(It takes a Kenyan village to raise a US president.)
To: green pastures
12
posted on
07/09/2009 1:10:13 PM PDT
by
evets
(beer)
To: djf
Rapamycin is widely used to stop transplant patients rejecting their new organs.
Yeah, but will it finally rid us of these?
13
posted on
07/09/2009 1:10:54 PM PDT
by
r9etb
To: TC Rider
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posted on
07/09/2009 1:10:57 PM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(It takes a Kenyan village to raise a US president.)
To: djf
It’s expected to take a decade of testing to develop it.
Too bad.
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posted on
07/09/2009 1:11:44 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
To: exist
Yeah, Thor Heyerdahl figured out way back when. Von Daniken must not have read that book. I think it was Kon Tiki. I have a copy of it. And several others.
parsy, who clipped out articles about RA when he was a kid.
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posted on
07/09/2009 1:12:19 PM PDT
by
parsifal
("Knock and ye shall receive!" (The Bible, somewhere.))
To: TC Rider
I'm thinking that those stood watch outside a rilly big Big Boy diner.
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posted on
07/09/2009 1:12:49 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
To: djf
Vigorous exercise can add many active years to one's life...but most folks would rather take a pill so they can spend ten more years on the couch watching America's Biggest Loser.
Go figure!
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posted on
07/09/2009 1:14:11 PM PDT
by
SonOfDarkSkies
(Obama: "Enough about me, let's talk about you...what do you think of me?")
To: evets
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posted on
07/09/2009 1:15:49 PM PDT
by
djf
(Go tell everybody its calm before the storm Can you hear the distant thunder baby....)
To: evets
Wow! You are really good at photoshop. Damn!
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posted on
07/09/2009 1:20:19 PM PDT
by
Soothesayer
(The United States of America Rest in Peace November 4 2008)
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