Hype, hope, and reality: Telomere length, telomerase, and aging

Generations

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 48-53

  Warner, Huber R ^a   Hodes, Richard J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

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