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Can 'zombie cell' drugs actually improve your health?
Scientists are testing drugs that clear out old, damaged cells from the body. Early human trials are showing real benefits — reduced inflammation, improved physical function. The cells they target are sometimes called 'zombie cells' because they stop working but refuse to die.
Where it stands Multiple human trials show measurable benefits, though most are still early-stage
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- "New Urine Test Could Detect Aging Cells Early"
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- Does sleep apnea speed up heart aging?
- How does aging affect your body's tissue support system?
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- A Robust Senescence Response Helps Wounds Heal
- Dasatinib and Quercetin Outperform Navitoclax in a Mouse Model of Intervertebral Disc Degeneration
- Is Chronic Kidney Disease Accelerated Kidney Aging?
- Rubedo: the senolytic alchemist of aging biology
- New Preclinical Data on STX-1, a First-in-Class Senolytic ADC, To Be Presented at AACR 2026
- p21+TREM2+ senescent macrophages fuel inflammaging and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease
- Cellular Senescence and Mitochondrial Dysfunction and the Aging of the Vascular Endothelium
- The Senescence Associated Secretory Phenotype as a Basis for an Aging Clock
- Extracellular vesicles derived from senescent hepatocytes drive pan-cancer metastasis in aging
- First Human Data for Rubedo Life Sciences' Senolytic Drug RLS-1496
- BCL-2 and Cellular Senescence in Pulmonary Fibrosis
- uPAR Targeting to Enable CAR T Cell Therapies to Treat Solid Cancers
- Extracellular vesicles derived from senescent hepatocytes drive pan-cancer metastasis in aging
- Rubedo reports early clinical signal for senotherapeutic drug
- Rubedo reports positive phase 1 results for RLS-1496
- Cellular Senescence and Senotherapeutics: The Expert Roundup
- Cellular Senescence and Senotherapeutics: The Expert Roundup
- Two Polyunsaturated Lipids Demonstrate Senolytic Activity - Lifespan Research Institute
- Two Polyunsaturated Lipids Demonstrate Senolytic Activity
- Two Polyunsaturated Lipids Demonstrate Senolytic Activity
- Cellular Senescence as a Contributing Cause of Muscle Aging
- Senescence consortium targets biomarker gap
- Fight Aging! Newsletter, March 23rd 2026
- Reviewing the Development of Novel Senotherapeutics
- Autophagy as a Double Edged Sword in Aging
- Interfering in Induction of Bystander Senescence as an Approach to Senotherapy
- The Signatures of Different Senescent Cell Types Exhibit Different Strengths of Correlation with Age-Related Conditions
- Integrative Approaches to Treating Cellular Senescence in Kidney Disease - Wiley
- A Review of How the Heart Ages
- Sex-specific proteostasis and urothelial responses to senolytic therapy in the aged mouse bladder
- Sex-specific proteostasis and urothelial responses to senolytic therapy in the aged mouse bladder
- Sex-specific proteostasis and urothelial responses to senolytic therapy in the aged mouse bladder
- Patent filed for Immorta Bio’s new senolytic vaccine - Longevity.Technology
- New Antiaging Senotherapeutics: Senolytics and Senomorphics - Dermatology Times
- New Antiaging Senotherapeutics: Senolytics and Senomorphics - Dermatology Times