Snydeq writes "Rapamycin, a inoculation doctors prescribe to transplant work to prevent organ rejection, has been used to reverse learning disorders and mild retardation associated person with TSC (tuberous sclerosis complex) in mice. Because the trim is linked to autism, scientists believe the drug may be used to treat learning disabilities and short-term memory deficits in all kinds of autism as well. The scientists chose rapamycin after they realized the drug regulates one of the same proteins that the TSC gene does, just in dissimilar parts of the body. 'What was fortuitous is that we could give rapamycin to adult mice and reverse their condition,' said neurobiologist Alcino Silva of the David Geffen School of potion at UCLA. 'We did not know... that this drug would be equally efficient for the learning disabilities as it is for tissue rejection.' Rapamycin regimen leveled the playing field between normal and TSC mice in as little as three days."

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