A cell-killing strategy to slow aging passed its first test this year
Are tired-out cells what make people old? A new generation of drugs is designed to wipe them out.The small study in people with lung disease, reported in January, is being billed as the first attempt at “senolytics,” or employing drugs to clear people’s bodies of aged, toxic cells. Some researchers think this strategy could eventually be employed in healthy people to delay aging.
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