Our body has evolved to harbour senescent cells for a number of reasons – they’re involved in everything from childbirth to wound healing - iStockphoto At last year’s British Society for Research on ...

For some, January is a time for resolutions, with the goal often tied to being fitter and healthier. And increasingly this ...

Ageing was long thought to be inevitable, but treatment to forestall it is increasingly argued to be feasible. Of particular interest for such treatments are the ‘senescent’ cells that accumulate with ...

KYOTO--A research team from Kyoto University and other institutions has discovered a drug that selectively kills and eliminates only senescent cells, which are involved in the aging process.

Aged and frail people often suffer a decline in tissue reserve capacity during aging. This reserve, called resilience, helps the body maintain homeostasis through various defense, compensation, ...

Macrophages are a type of white blood cell that are among the body's first line of defense against infection. In addition to killing harmful microorganisms, macrophages typically can initiate a ...

Under healthy conditions, the intestinal epithelium fully renews itself every three to five days. Aging and exposure to ...

Illustration of CAR (chimeric antigen receptor) T cell immunotherapy, a process that is being developed to treat cancer. T cells (blue), part of the body's immune system, are taken from the patient ...

Senolytics, drugs that remove senescent cells from the body, are proving effective in clinical studies, showing the ability to restore damaged tissue to prior levels of function. While not the fabled ...

The researchers found that clearing away damaged but undying brain cells (known as zombie cells) in mouse models of epilepsy ...

Senescent skin cells, often referred to as zombie cells because they have outlived their usefulness without ever quite dying, have existed in the human body as a seeming paradox, causing inflammation ...