How Food Influences Healthspan and Aging There is a lot of cell research going on in pursuit of understanding and improving healthspan and aging. In this study, the focus is on the protein called mTOR, which acts like a boss giving orders inside your cells. One of its functions is to keep a close check…

Long-Term Rapamycin Exposure Tests Closer to Home In this rapamycin (Rapa) study, the experiments lasted for 14 months. It's a significant step forward compared to other research carried out on lab mice. But why monkeys? Primates are closer relatives to humans than rodents, making the results more relevant to us. Also, the small size of…