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Location matters: How one fat molecule can help trigger both cell limbo and cell death
- March 30, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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When cells experience enough chronic stress, they can stop dividing permanently. In this state of cellular limbo, known as replicative senescence, cells remain alive but no longer proliferate. Pinpointing the stressors that help trigger or accelerate replicative senescence has proven difficult.
Originally published at Phys.org