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the biological typo that never gets fixed, just accumulates.
means the gradual decline of a cell's or organism's function with age, ending in death or dysfunction.
from from latin senescere, to grow old, root sen- also gave us senior and senate — literally rule by the aged.
zombie cellssenescent cells refuse to die, poison neighbors instead
double meaningcan mean whole-organism aging or single-cell shutdown
telomeresshrinking chromosome caps trigger senescence like a countdown
not all badsenescence also stops cancer cells from multiplying