Doxycycline
An antibiotic that in this context is being used as a molecular switch to control the production of Yamanaka factors in gene therapy.
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"We used a molecule doxycycline. It's used to treat Lyme disease, but we're using it over a matter of a few weeks or really six weeks to turn on those three genes OSK. So really the deaging comes down to one shot and then antibiotic treatment for a..."
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"We give them doxycycline. It's used for malaria. It's used for Lyme disease. And we're using it in this case to turn these genes on."
"The genes go into the retina and we can turn it on with a drug called doxycycline. And we do that in the mice for four to eight weeks, then the eye..."
"the production of these Yamanaka factors can be turned on and off by taking an antibiotic called doxycycline"
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