Day 1,371: immunosuppressant

One is metformin, which has been approved for use against type-2 diabetes; another is rapamycin, an immunosuppressant used in organ transplants.

Living to 120 is becoming an imaginable prospect

Artwork of the day 
Suppression of the Octroi in 1860
Xavier Mellery
Date: 1890
Style: Art Nouveau (Modern)
Genre: genre painting,history painting
Media: lithography

Word of the day 
immunosuppressant: an agent (such as a drug) that suppresses the immune response

Quote of the day
“most infections happened at the market, perhaps due to a combination of crowded interspecies mixing and the immunosuppressive effect of stress.39”

― Michael Greger, How to Survive a Pandemic