'Zombie cells' that contribute to age-related diseases also help heal damaged tissues, so wiping them out could come with major downsides, a new study suggests.
, an associate professor of pulmonary, critical care, allergy and sleep medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.found that zombie cells help mend wounds in the skin and that their repairs can also be disrupted by zombie-slaying drugs, or"senolytics."
Whenever a cell switched on the gene, it would also churn out fluorescent proteins and start to glow. Glowing cells appeared in mice's lungs shortly after birth, and their numbers increased over the rodents' life spans.
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