Day 1,374: senescent

Another path is to develop drugs that kill “senescent” cells for which the body has no further use.

Living to 120 is becoming an imaginable prospect

Artwork of the day 
The Three Ages of Man
Giorgione
Original Title: Le tre età dell’uomo
Date: 1500 - 1501
Style: High Renaissance
Genre: allegorical painting
Media: oil, panel, canvas
Location: Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy
Dimensions: 62 x 77.5 cm

Word of the day 
senescent: becoming old, and therefore in less good condition and less able to function well

Quote of the day
“Senescence begins

And middle-age ends

The day your descendants

Outnumber your friends”

― Ogden Nash