Senescent cells play an essential role in wound healing
Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 15:30
in Health & Medicine
Tumor suppressing senescent cells are bad for aging. The no-longer-dividing cells release a continual cascade of inflammatory factors and are implicated in many maladies including arthritis, atherosclerosis and late life cancer. But researchers show that senescent cells are good for wound healing -- identifying a single factor that causes them to promote that process. It's a crucial discovery for researchers working on developing treatments to clear senescent cells as a way to stem age-related disease.