Your body is slowly filling up with zombie cells.


They stop dividing but refuse to die. They just sit there, accumulating over decades, driving cancer, Alzheimer's, and aging itself.
The problem has always been finding them. Zombie cells hide among healthy ones and look almost identical.
A Mayo Clinic grad student had a crazy idea. What if tiny synthetic DNA molecules could be designed to seek them out and tag them like a GPS tracker?
They screened over 100 trillion random DNA sequences and found several that could lock onto zombie cells and flag them for destruction, leaving healthy cells untouched.
We may have just found the cells that make us age. And a way to find them.
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