{"id":96879,"date":"2019-10-01T14:03:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T21:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/fruit-flies-live-longer-with-combination-drug-treatment"},"modified":"2019-10-01T14:03:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T21:03:05","slug":"fruit-flies-live-longer-with-combination-drug-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/fruit-flies-live-longer-with-combination-drug-treatment","title":{"rendered":"Fruit flies live longer with combination drug treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fruit-flies-live-longer-with-combination-drug-treatment2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A triple drug combination has been used to extend the lifespan of fruit flies by 48% in a new study led by UCL and the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing.<\/p>\n<p>The three drugs are all already in use as <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/medical+treatments\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">medical treatments<\/a>: lithium as a mood stabiliser, trametinib as a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cancer+treatment\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cancer treatment<\/a> and rapamycin as an immune system regulator.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, published in <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)<\/i>, suggest that a combination <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/drug\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">drug<\/a> treatment may one day be helpful at preventing <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/age-related+diseases\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">age-related diseases<\/a> in people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A triple drug combination has been used to extend the lifespan of fruit flies by 48% in a new study led by UCL and the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing. The three drugs are all already in use as medical treatments: lithium as a mood stabiliser, trametinib as a cancer treatment and rapamycin [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}