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Medical School pathologist David Sinclair and researchers at a Cambridge pharmaceutical firm he helped found said they developed a chemical 1,000 times more potent than the resveratrol found in red wine and grapes...
...team led by Sinclair previously discovered that resveratrol can stimulate the SIRT1 gene, which controls aging. But it took them several years to develop a compound powerful enough to potentially be used as a drug for humans...
...work is a breakthough because it shows you can develop drug-like molecules that are one thousand time more potent than resveratrol,” Sinclair said in a phone interview yesterday. The report was published in yesterday’s edition of the journal Nature...
...Sinclair said the new chemical has shown promising results when human cells were treated with it in the laboratory. Testing on people will begin next year. “We’ll know very soon if we’re right,” he said...
...think that to make a small pill that could treat diabetes is a milestone towards achieving a cure,” Sinclair said...