Tag: Cellular senescence
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In a study published in Nucleic Acids Research, the team of cancer researcher Francis Rodier, professor at Université de Montréal, shows for the first time that the cellular senescence that occurs when aging cells stop dividing is and is not caused by irreversible damage to the genome simply by telomere erosion.