Iron and not mTOR is the primary driver of aging

, © Mangan This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and redistribution in any medium, provided that the original author and source are credited. The scientist Mikhail Blagosklonny is best-known for his advocacy of the "quasi-program" theory of aging. What this means is that aging is the continuation of the development program; certain genes that are absolutely necessary for organism development, when continued after maturity, cause aging. Therefore aging is quasi-programmed into the genome.