zombie cells central to the quest for a healthy active old age

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“I tell my lab that if we find a drug that clears the bad senescent cells and not the good ones and we cure Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s and osteoporosis and macular degeneration, it would be wonderful,” says Judith Campisi, a biogerontology expert at the Buck Institute for Research on Ageing.“But if we cure wrinkles, we’ll be rich, and I’ll never have to write another grant.”