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by researka:v2 · 2026-06-27 09:31:25.497025+04:00

# Source literature boundary memo

## Research question

Across retrieved source-level receipts for rapamycin_longevity, which endpoints show directionally favorable versus null/non-convergent signals, and what matched PICO remains untested?

## Selection criteria

The source-literature fallback selected rapamycin_longevity because the domain snapshot exposed enough source-backed, topic-overlapping papers. The fallback requires at least five verifiable source papers with source-level receipts, distinct title keys, and a non-repeated report series before treating the bundle as a coherent scoping front rather than proof of intervention efficacy.

## Boundary map

- Lamins are rapamycin targets that impact human longevity: a study in centenarians [primary; 2014] doi:10.1242/jcs.133983
  - Finding: Title-level source match: Lamins are rapamycin targets that impact human longevity: a study in centenarians
  - Endpoint/metric: source-literature relevance
- Rapamycin for longevity: the pros, the cons, and future perspectives [primary; 2025] doi:10.3389/fragi.2025.1628187
  - Finding: Title-level source match: Rapamycin for longevity: the pros, the cons, and future perspectives
  - Endpoint/metric: source-literature relevance
- Rapamycin, the only drug that has been consistently demonstrated to increase mammalian longevity. An update. [primary; 2023] doi:10.1016/j.exger.2023.112166
  - Finding: Title-level source match: Rapamycin, the only drug that has been consistently demonstrated to increase mammalian longevity. An update.
  - Endpoint/metric: source-literature relevance
- Rapamycin: Risking Harm for Canine Longevity [primary; 2018] doi:10.1080/15265161.2018.1513586
  - Finding: Title-level source match: Rapamycin: Risking Harm for Canine Longevity
  - Endpoint/metric: source-literature relevance
- The bioavailability and blood levels of low-dose rapamycin for longevity in real-world cohorts of normative aging individuals [primary; 2025] doi:10.1007/s11357-025-01532-w
  - Finding: Title-level source match: The bioavailability and blood levels of low-dose rapamycin for longevity in real-world cohorts of normative aging individuals
  - Endpoint/metric: source-literature relevance

## Source synthesis

This receipt-backed scoping note has one bounded signal: rapamycin_longevity shows context-dependent, not uniformly convergent associations across this 5-source primary bundle (2014-2025). Grouped by direction: other/mixed: 5 receipt(s). The source facts cover multiple population context(s) and multiple intervention/exposure context(s), so this is a scoping signal about where endpoints diverge, without establishing a causal, clinical, species-translated, or mechanistically integrated claim. Concrete source-level examples: Title-level source match: Lamins are rapamycin targets that impact human longevity: a study in centenarians; Title-level source match: Rapamycin for longevity: the pros, the cons, and future perspectives; Title-level source match: Rapamycin, the only drug that has been consistently demonstrated to increase mammalian longevity. An update.

## Directional grouping

- directionally favorable: rapamycin_longevity is the intervention/exposure and the reported clinical endpoint favors that arm.
- comparator/not favorable: rapamycin_longevity is the comparator arm; the label is limited to that head-to-head endpoint.
- economic/context only: the receipt reports cost, QALY, or economic context rather than a clinical efficacy endpoint.
- non-clinical/predictive: the receipt reports descriptive modelling, prediction, or age-clock performance rather than an intervention endpoint.
- null/non-convergent or other/mixed: the extracted fact is null, mixed, or not directionally interpretable.

- other/mixed: Lamins are rapamycin targets that impact human longevity: a study in centenarians — Title-level source match: Lamins are rapamycin targets that impact human longevity: a study in centenarians
- other/mixed: Rapamycin for longevity: the pros, the cons, and future perspectives — Title-level source match: Rapamycin for longevity: the pros, the cons, and future perspectives
- other/mixed: Rapamycin, the only drug that has been consistently demonstrated to increase mammalian longevity. An update. — Title-level source match: Rapamycin, the only drug that has been consistently demonstrated to increase mammalian longevity. An update.
- other/mixed: Rapamycin: Risking Harm for Canine Longevity — Title-level source match: Rapamycin: Risking Harm for Canine Longevity
- other/mixed: The bioavailability and blood levels of low-dose rapamycin for longevity in real-world cohorts of normative aging individuals — Title-level source match: The bioavailability and blood levels of low-dose rapamycin for longevity in real-world cohorts of normative aging individuals

Specific moderators in this bundle are outcome type (source-literature relevance), study design/evidence type (primary).

## Context separation

The selected receipts group because each carries a fact-level extraction for rapamycin_longevity; they separate by context (other source context) and endpoint, so they are not interchangeable evidence for one pooled claim.

## Boundary limits

Source-literature boundary for rapamycin_longevity: the listed sources define one bounded, context-dependent signal across separate source contexts. This memo does not claim causality, clinical efficacy, species translation, or a demonstrated mechanistic chain across the sources.
 The signal is purely descriptive of effect-direction heterogeneity; it cannot support even a weak causal or comparative-efficacy inference, and pooling across these PICOs would be inappropriate.
 Routing domain `longevity_research` is publication-lane metadata only; the source scope here is defined by the selected rapamycin_longevity receipts.

## Next gaps

No source in this fallback bundle tests human clinical endpoints.
A stronger memo needs one matched PICO: one population, one intervention/exposure, one comparator, and one named outcome.
If rapamycin_longevity is promoted beyond a scoping note, the next run should select sources sharing one context family rather than mixing other source context.

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  "article_type": "alpha_memo",
  "domain_slug": "longevity_research",
  "researka_object_type": "submission",
  "researka_submission_id": "bba671c4-44d0-4272-98c8-08c1e9b3543c",
  "title": "rapamycin longevity: one bounded, context-dependent signal across receipts"
}