Despite early failures in the clinic, the idea of anti-aging therapies that purge the body of dying cells is gaining traction with a raft of startups now focused on senescence.
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Dolgin, E. Send in the senolytics. Nat Biotechnol 38, 1371–1377 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-020-00750-1
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