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PubChem 71571511

C, W, M, H: cells, worms or flies, mice, humans. Dark: independent labs found the same change there. Light: one lab or one study. Outline: nothing yet.

Labs are independent when their papers share no last author and no institution.

Against: findings that point the other way from most findings on the same outcome.

On aging: the drug’s trials ARN judged to be about aging, of every trial that tests it for any use.

No results posted: trials that ended more than a year ago with no results on ClinicalTrials.gov and no paper in ARN’s record.

Company ties: findings with an author at a company, or from a paper whose competing-interests statement declares ties to one.

  • 1 lab in 1 country
  • Funders: Boston Area Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center and 6 more
  • Model organisms1

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Metformin-mediated lifespan extension

mixedin C. species1

1 study

  1. Agar is associated with metformin-mediated lifespan extension in C. species.

    “variation in agar from lot-to-lot or from different manufacturers influences metformin's ability to extend lifespan in diverse Caenorhabditis species.”

    Model organismsmetformin treatmentdifferent lots or manufacturers

    Environmental factors capable of broadly interfering with nutritional lifespan extension paradigms

    iScience6 Jun 2025

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