Read the weekly text article by Mr. Kevin Shimkus titled "Understanding mTOR: Great for Muscle, Bad for Cancer." "In muscle research, we tend to pay a great deal of attention to a particular signaling protein called mTOR, a key regulatory protein that signals for cell growth through the creation of new proteins. Consider protein building similar to a race car. The larger the engine, the greater potential for speed. Similarly, the more mTOR protein present in any given cell, the gr...