The growing social and economic concern of an aging world population has catapulted agingrelated research into the spotlight. Indeed, over the last decades, progress in medicine has powered a significant increase in life expectancy worldwide. Thus, over 2 billion individuals are expected to be older than the age of 60 by 2050. This demographic milepost will come with a major increase in age-related diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, cardiovascular disorders, and cancer, which effectively double in incidence every 5 years passing the age of 60. The relationship between aging and these diseases has triggered fundamental research into the aging mechanisms and approaches to attenuate its effect.