Rapamycin shortens life of mice with already short telomeres

#1

This is very interesting article from some russian popular science magazine, so please use your favorite translators.

Mice with short telomeres had their life shortened by rapamycin. Therefore mTOR looks like defender when telomeres are short. And maybe (sad) rapa kills your short-telomered cells.

#2

That article is based on research from a few years ago… see these threads:

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#3

Ок, let it be here for β€œthe sake of fullness of your library” of articles devoted to Rapamycin) Now - even on Russian)