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Stem cell function and maintenance - ends that matter: role of telomeres and telomerase

Hamid Saeed1, Mehwish Iqtedar

  • 1Department of Endocrinology, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. dkstemham@yahoo.com

Journal of Biosciences
|August 14, 2013
PubMed

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