Anti-aging agents are not just cosmetic trend, as studies declare, they are becoming more popular healing trend for mitigating ageing effects. One way to search for these agents is by using bioinformatics approaches. Bioinformatic is a tool which is approaching the problem by constructing algorithms for big amounts of data analysis. Those types of analysis generate results, that otherwise won’t be discovered, because they often aren’t standing out, which limits the amount of information the data is able to give. Nowadays there are many theories available, whit whom scientists are trying to describe ageing mechanisms. All available theories share a common thought that ageing is unfamiliar and complex process. Drug repurposing studies are using bioinformatics methods. Their goal is to check the potential for anti-ageing effects in approved drugs, because that would be the only way to get a chance for a clinical trial for human use. Metformin, known as anti-diabetic medicine is still in clinical trial for anti-ageing effects on human. One study had successful expose tanespimycin as medicine that has a potential to postpone human ageing process. Tanespimycin is senolytic, who destroys senescent human cells and do nothing to the healthy ones. Its geroprotective effects have been tested on Caenorhabditis elegans, in whom senescence is not happening.
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