In the 1960s, US anatomist Leonard Hayflick observed that replicative cells have a limited number of divisions, caused in part by telomere shortening and later dubbed the Hayflick limit. He saw that ...

Despite all the research happening around understanding Alzheimer’s disease in the past few decades, the reality is that scientists still don’t have great answers for struggling patients. This has led ...

Cellular senescence refers to a state of irreversible arrest of cell proliferation. It was first described by Hayflick and colleagues in the 1960s when they observed cessation of cell proliferation ...

Finding new drugs—called "drug discovery"—is an expensive and time-consuming task. But a type of artificial intelligence called machine learning can massively accelerate the process and do the job for ...

Senescent cells are a hallmark of aging. They have also been implicated in a broad spectrum of age-related diseases and conditions including cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and Alzheimer’s ...