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While 20th century medical solutions for weight loss were marred by withdrawals, failures and death, surgical methods found success
The team presented their research findings at the Pharmacy Quality Alliance 2024 Annual Meeting
But suffice it to say the compound rapamycin was identified first long before a really amazing guy named David Sabatini as a PhD student at Hopkins in 1993, 1994 as a side project in a lab made the discovery that this thing, rapamycin, was actually working by inhibiting a protein complex of which TOR, target of rapamycin, as it became named was the central piece
The transcription factor optomotor-blind antagonizes Drosophila haltere growth by repressing decapentaplegic and hedgehog targets
Thats where side effects come in and spoiler: theyre usually temporary, manageable , and totally worth riding out