For human health, prematurely aging cells are a big problem. When a cell ages and stops growing, its function changes, which ...

Researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio have discovered a way to delay or even block ...

Immortalized cell lines are derived from cancer cells or genetically modified to overcome senescence, allowing them to proliferate ... and disease modeling. 3D cell cultures involve growing cells in a ...

F. Passos et al., "Mitochondrial dysfunction accounts for the stochastic heterogeneity in telomere-dependent senescence," PLoS Biology, 5:1138, 2007. (Cited in 31 papers) The study: To investigate why ...

one of which involves permanent cell-cycle arrest — that’s senescence. The cells basically stop dividing and they start producing molecules that disrupt the function of neighboring cells and ...