Uncompromising pessimist, Spengler sounded the knell of Western civilization, which he said had passed maturity, was beginning a swift senescence.
What senescence researchers really want is a way to get down into the body's engine room--the genes themselves--and rebuild things from the boilers up.
Manipulating any senescence genes could be years--indeed, decades--away.
New details of natural anticancer mechanism uncovered Scientists have identified key triggers of an important cancer-blocking mechanism in cells. Termed “oncogene-induced senescence,” this mechanism can block most cancer types and is commonly experienced when incipient skin cancers turn instead into slow-growing moles.
June 11, 2013 - Science Daily
Scientists Uncover New Details of Natural Anticancer Mechanism Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have identified key triggers of an important cancer-blocking mechanism in cells. Termed "oncogene-induced senescence," this mechanism can block most cancer types and is commonly experienced when incipient skin cancers turn instead into slow-growing moles.
June 11, 2013 - Newswise
Scripps Research Institute scientists uncover new details of natural anticancer mechanism ( Scripps Research Institute ) Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have identified key triggers of an important cancer-blocking mechanism in cells. Termed "oncogene-induced senescence," this mechanism can block most cancer types and is commonly experienced when incipient skin cancers turn instead into slow-growing moles. Tumors that achieve malignancy often do so by defeating or ...
June 11, 2013 - EurekAlert!
Anton Kuerti in Ottawa Citizen My sole worry is that receiving these awards so close together is a symptom of decline, of senescence,Kuerti said with a laugh. "But I hope I can still achieve a bit more in what's left of my lifetime."
David Foster Wallace in The Australian In 1996, David Foster Wallace wrote in The New York Observer: "Mailer, Updike, Roth -- the Great Male Narcissists who've dominated post-war American fiction -- are now in their senescence, and it must seem to them no coincidence that the prospect of...
John Brumby in WM Experts (press release) The modification of plant ageing, referred to as plant leaf senescence, has important agricultural consequences and leads to a wide range of potential applications,said John Brumby. "It will mean farmers can get the same crop yield from...