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• n  the organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age
• n  the property characteristic of old age

• 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.

• aging
• ageing
• agedness

News & Articles

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• 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!

Quotes

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• 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...