Global Technology – September 2012

Now let’s focus on this month’s most important advances in technology. 

Business Briefings has previously highlighted the anti-aging potential of an anti-rejection drug called rapamycin.  Now, researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio have discovered that adding rapamycin to the diet of healthy mice throughout the rodents’ life span enhanced learning and memory in young mice and improved these faculties in old mice. 

Among the older mice, the ones fed with a diet including rapa.....