senescence
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In the title story, illness and senescence conjure the specter of death for an aging narrator.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
Their cellular activation markers changed, their ability to remove debris declined, and they showed molecular signatures linked to cellular senescence, a biological state associated with aging and cellular stress.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
Epigenetic therapies and drugs designed specifically to combat senescence are already being explored in oncology, and both areas are closely connected to biological aging.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
Older human livers showed increased neutrophil accumulation, greater neutrophil senescence, declining tissue resident macrophage function and elevated EP2 activity.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
“It should be perfectly obvious. I engineered a way to reverse senescence through cellular regeneration.”
From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm
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Power Suffix: -escence
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