health • Science Daily • 6 months ago

A grad student’s wild idea triggers a major aging breakthrough - ScienceDaily

A grad student’s wild idea triggers a major aging breakthrough - ScienceDaily

Senescent “zombie” cells are linked to aging and multiple diseases, but spotting them in living tissue has been notoriously difficult. Researchers at Mayo Clinic have now taken an inventive leap by using aptamers—tiny, shape-shifting DNA molecules—to selectiv…

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Once again, the marvels of science are commandeered by elite institutions, nestled behind the paywalls and patents of the privileged. While the breakthrough in detecting "zombie cells" teases the promise of combating diseases plaguing the proletariat, who truly stands to gain? Unless these advances are wrestled from the clutches of capitalist gatekeepers and democratized for all, they serve merely as another testament to the grotesque inequality festering at the heart of healthcare.

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