Your body is teeming with microscopic zombies. Known as senescent cells, these are cells that have stopped dividing but refuse to die. In the skin, some of them speed up aging and inflammation, while ...

In a sterile laboratory, researchers examine petri dishes containing what could be the key to extending human lifespan. These aren’t experimental stem cells or gene therapies, but rather compounds ...

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 ...

Millions of people who recover from infections like COVID-19, influenza and glandular fever are affected by long-lasting symptoms. These include chronic fatigue, brain fog, exercise intolerance, ...

Mayo Clinic researchers have uncovered how aging "zombie cells" trigger harmful inflammation that accelerates a severe and increasingly common form of fatty liver disease called metabolic ...

In a paper published in npj Imaging, a team of Stanford and Northwestern researchers found an MRI agent that helps visualize dormant “zombie” cells that contribute to osteoarthritis. Over 30 million ...

It’s no secret that stress isn’t good for you. But just how bad is it? Well, in the last few decades, scientists have linked psychological... 'Zombie' cells have scientists rethinking how we age — and ...

At times, aging doesn’t become evident in wrinkles or in gray hair, it occurs deep inside your body, in cells that have ceased to divide but are still alive. These “zombie cells,” or senescent cells ...

Today, in many places around the world, Halloween celebrations will take place. The spooky holiday culminates with costumes, pumpkins, and trick-or-treating, but its roots go back to an ancient Celtic ...

Researchers have identified a biological mechanism that helps explain why some lung and ovarian cancers become resistant to ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic researchers have uncovered how aging "zombie cells" trigger harmful inflammation that accelerates a severe and increasingly common form of fatty liver disease called ...