MTOR and viral infectious disease: Our data, although emanating from a neonatal diabetes model can be relevant also to other forms of diabetes, for example T2D in which interplay of genetics (variants in cell cycle genes) and environmental factors like viral infections, nutritional stressors or noxious chemicals during the early postnatal period, may induce silent but detrimental effects on β-cell mass via the ER stress-mTOR pathway, predisposing to diabetes in adulthood.