Transplanting a small number of senescent cells into mice was enough to cause frailty and reduce their survival.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by original peer-reviewed Nature Medicine study (Xu et al. 2018) and corroborated by independent secondary sources including ScienceDaily and Cell Press commentary.
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