Senescent cells, which are damaged and inflammatory, contribute significantly to aging. Researchers at the Max Planck ...

Worms offer a simple yet powerful whole-organism model for studying senescence, mirroring mammalian aging processes and ...

Scientists have discovered that starving and then refeeding worms can reveal surprising secrets about aging. When a specific ...

Platelet-derived growth factors can restore the proliferative potential of senescent cells taken from the degenerated intervertebral discs of aged humans.

"These organisms that senescence in different ways, or don't senescence at all […] These tend to have life courses where something other than age is important," says Owen Jones, a population dynamics ...

Each cell in an organism has an average life span. For example, cells lining the surface of the human gut or skin typically live 3-5 days before they die. 1 In contrast, stem cells and neurons can ...

A new study from the Cellular Aging and Senescence laboratory at Queen Mary University of London's Centre for Molecular Cell ...

Senescence is therefore not necessarily an adverse by-product of natural selection but can also be advantageous for organisms. This represents major progress in explaining senescence, ...

About 75 percent of the species in their sample displayed little to no senescence, and 80 percent of them had aging rates that were lower than those of modern humans.

"Senescence is a double-edged sword," said Uhlirova. One advantage of senescent cells is that they are not all eliminated by cell death at the same time, thus maintaining the integrity of the tissue.