The researchers found that clearing away damaged but undying brain cells (known as zombie cells) in mouse models of epilepsy ...

Zombie cells are those that have outlived their usefulness, but don’t really die. Now, we may know why zombie skin cells have this double agent-esque existence. Not all senescent skin cells are the ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN ANTONIO, TX -- Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor recently revealed she likely has Alzheimer's disease, joining nearly five and a half million people who struggle with the disease.

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 ...

Scientists are unraveling the role of senescent cells in a common form of epilepsy, and it could point to new treatments.