Telomeres and senescence: The history, the experiment, the future

Current Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1998, Pages

  Greider, Carol W ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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EID: 0032567975     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(98)70105-8     Document Type: Review

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