Diabetes drug shown to prolong the duration of safety and lifespan

Metformin is the most commonly used type 2 diabetes drug, but researchers are still not fully aware of how blood sugar levels are regulated. Scientists from the Salk Institute, the Scripps Research Institute and Weill Cornell Medical College used new technology in a collaborative effort to explore why it performs so well. The results, which established a surprising number of biochemical "switches" for various cellular processes, coul....