Researchers led by a team from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel have just discovered a way to destroy harmful 'senescent' cells that accumulate with age and ramp up the kind of tissue damage and inflammation that slowly brings life to a grinding halt.

The team found that CD4 T immune cells transform into assassins of the damaging tissues when biological aging is detected in the body.

The new fighters, called CD4-Eomes (after the protein they produce), have been spotted before . However, this latest study highlights for the first time how closely they're linked to senescent cells and aging at the molecular level.

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"Our findings demonstrate the fundamental role of CD4-Eomes cells in modulating tissue sene

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