Every day, our bodies perform around 330 billion cell divisions to keep us alive and functioning. These divisions rely on the cell cycle, which has been in place since the earliest bacteria. The ...

Every day, our bodies perform around 330 billion cell divisions to keep us alive and functioning. These divisions rely on the cell cycle, which has been in place since the earliest bacteria.

Neuronal cell cycle reentry events in the aging brain are more prevalent in neurodegeneration and lead to cellular senescence. PLOS Biology, 2024; 22 (4): e3002559 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002559 ...

Specifically, the study revealed that several recently evolved transcription factors regulate genes that are active during specific phases of the cell cycle. When some of these factors were ...