The gene is involved in senescence, a process that is thought to ensure that aging cells do not pass on harmful mutations. From Wordnik.com. [Canadian Fashion History] Reference
Dr. LADA: I would say more it's - scientifically, it is called a senescence process. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
One of the cellular processes controlled by the RB family is cellular senescence, which is now known to act as a barrier against cancer. From Wordnik.com. [Science Blog] Reference
My dream is to use a product whose name sounds a lot like the word "senescence" but isn't!. From Wordnik.com. [Sharron Angle + cosmetics: You can't make this up!] Reference
(A lot of novice gardeners will mistake the natural "senescence" or shedding of yellowing old leaves as a symptom of disease.). From Wordnik.com. [Andrea's Buzzing About:] Reference
What two phenomena of senescence were more frequent?. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
Subliminable ™ connections to his advancing senescence. From Wordnik.com. [New McCain Ad: "Celebrity" Obama Is Also The "Taxman"] Reference
They nearly always die by seventeen, far gone in senescence. From Wordnik.com. [Concepts of Disease and Health] Reference
P53 is the major, but not the only, gatekeeper of cell senescence. From Wordnik.com. [A little knowledge... - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The cold-dry hypothesis of senescence is not, of itself, apologist. From Wordnik.com. [LONGEVITY] Reference
In both cases, this led to premature cellular ageing – senescence. From Wordnik.com. [The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Press Release] Reference
Will 'negligible senescence' be realized, perhaps even for my parent?. From Wordnik.com. [The Speculist: September 2005 Archives] Reference
Page 92, Volume 3 to finding ways of retarding or overcoming senescence. From Wordnik.com. [LONGEVITY] Reference
And in the case of negligible senescence, probably not that far ahead. From Wordnik.com. [Posthuman Blues] Reference
Some biogerontologists disagree with the supposed inevitablity of senescence. From Wordnik.com. [The joys of impairment] Reference
This is an old phenomenon that each game discovers anew as it nears senescence. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
So, when a telomere gets short, that's when either senescence or apoptosis is triggered. From Wordnik.com. [Carol W. Greider - Interview] Reference
Sometimes I think the best way to stave off senescence is to adamantly refuse to hate youth. From Wordnik.com. [home of the Big O] Reference
As baby-boomers enter their/our senescence, we're all looking for companionship in the dark. From Wordnik.com. [David Shields: The Writer's Job: Aggravate The Fear Of Death] Reference
Megalodon said: Some biogerontologists disagree with the supposed inevitablity of senescence. From Wordnik.com. [The joys of impairment] Reference
Those who are pursuing strategies for engineered negligible senescence understand this very well. From Wordnik.com. [The Speculist: September 2004 Archives] Reference
Later on, Greider's group showed that the senescence of human cells is also delayed by telomerase. From Wordnik.com. [The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Press Release] Reference
In contrast, functional telomeres instead prevent chromosomal damage and delay cellular senescence. From Wordnik.com. [The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Press Release] Reference
It's shallow of people to think that sexiness is something that can go on undiminished into senescence. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 11, 2005] Reference
Why, she herself was going to start putting money aside, one of these years, to pay for anti-senescence. From Wordnik.com. [The Game Of Empire]
Mortality rates decline over time, rather than rising exponentially as in the usual process of senescence. From Wordnik.com. [Have a Thermodynamically Consistent Christmas] Reference
Not from senescence, though given its long lineage that would not have been unnatural, or even unexpected. From Wordnik.com. [Carnivores of Light and Darkness]
Canopy dieback occurs in this forest and is thought to be a natural phenomenon related to cohort senescence. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Howe Island subtropical forests] Reference
Atop that is the issue of McCain's senescence, his exhibiting signs of loss of mental acuity in recent years. From Wordnik.com. [Surprise! McCain Camp Keeps Hitting Wes Clark Comments, Despite Obama's Disavowals] Reference
Once senescence does set in, physical and mental decline proceed at the same rate as in the past, only later. From Wordnik.com. [Japan's Population Problem] Reference
It's a claim which, while preposterous in my mind, does help to further offset my fears about premature senescence. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions of a TV Golf Addict] Reference
Instead of the imagery of senescence and exhaustion, we find constant reference to new birth, growth, and virility. From Wordnik.com. [COSMIC FALL] Reference
The mortal star that was the mother of all life had passed into bloody senescence and would kill us without conscience. From Wordnik.com. [Spin] Reference
Even in his extreme senescence there was an April mood somewhere in his nature "that put a spirit of youth in everything.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867] Reference
"Unlike some of us, who in their senescence have become as nearsighted as a geriatric bat, I can see just fine from up here.". From Wordnik.com. [Curse of the Shadowmage]
It becomes less efficient for plants to exert energy on translocation before senescence; hence, the quality of litter increases. From Wordnik.com. [Climate change in relation to carbon uptake and carbon storage in the Arctic] Reference
Not quite, he approaching seventy and she approaching fifty, given anti-senescence plus the kind of DNA repair they could pay for. From Wordnik.com. [The Game Of Empire]
Today, the biggest threats to the kauri forests are natural senescence and browsing by brush-tailed possums (Trichosurus vulpecula). From Wordnik.com. [Northland temperate kauri forests] Reference
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