Scientists succeed in extending lives of fruit flies by 50%, offering clues on how to fight aging in people
LONDON - 100 Scientists who gave fruit flies a triple drug combination treatment and found that it extended their lives by almost 50% say their work offers clues on how to fight aging in people.
“We are not trying to cheat death, but help people be healthy and disease-free in their final years,” said Linda Partridge, a professor at University College London’s Institute of Healthy Ageing and the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Aging who co-led the work. Partridge said the findings add to growing evidence that so-called polypills – pills that combine low doses of multiple drugs – could one day help prevent age-related diseases.
In this study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, Castillo-Quan’s team gave fruit flies doses of the three drugs separately and in combination.
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