Cancer Drug Delays Aging in Mice

Cancer Drug Delays Aging... “In a potentially landmark study on the biology of aging and how to delay it, a drug gave elderly mice the human equivalent of thirteen extra years of life.

“Though the drug is an immune system suppressant that almost certainly won’t have the same effect in humans, the study provides compelling evidence that pharmacologically slowing the process of aging itself may be possible.

“It’s unlikely that the life extension came from merely postponing a few specific diseases,” said Jackson Laboratory gerontologist David Harrison, a leader of one of three research teams who conducted the experiment separately. “And the treatment didn’t start until the mice were the equivalent of a 60-year-old human. No other intervention has been so effective starting late in life.”