senescent

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"Our hope is that senotherapy, which involves using medications to remove senescent, or aging cells, could potentially minimize the need for surgery and/or improve outcomes after surgery."

From Science Daily

The students brought their concept to their advisors and to researcher Darren Baker, Ph.D., whose work centers on senescent cell therapies.

From Science Daily

What gives with this senescent New Year’s tradition of still waltzing 200 years since the birth of the dance’s greatest maker, Johann Strauss II?

From Los Angeles Times

The study provides a better understanding of the interactions between cell types and how they induce senescence, which could inform efforts to develop drugs that target senescent cells.

From Science Daily

There have been female kings, stagings in innumerable languages, productions set in Viking times, or in a modern-day nursing home with Lear’s madness depicted as a senescent dream.

From Los Angeles Times