Senescent cells refuse to die. They stop dividing, resist the body’s normal cleanup signals, and leak a cocktail of ...
A team at Mayo Clinic has developed synthetic DNA strands that can seek out and latch onto senescent cells, the damaged, ...
Researchers at Mayo Clinic announced on May 15, 2026 that synthetic DNA molecules called aptamers can reliably tag senescent ...
A casual conversation between graduate students helped spark a breakthrough in aging research at Mayo Clinic. Researchers discovered that tiny synthetic DNA molecules called aptamers can selectively ...
How reorganizing existing drugs and vaccine components can dramatically alter their potency, selectivity, and even their ...
I n science, whether an anomaly is insignificant or the basis for a promising new field of study can boil down to the ...
Scheme showing the structure of cytosine, 5-methylcytosine, and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine. Adding a methyl group to the DNA base cytosine represses gene expression in mammalian cells. To remove the ...