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  • 1Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; The David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, Department of Biology, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD, USA.

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agingfastingfatty acid oxidationintestinal stem cellsintestinemetabolismmitochondrial metabolismstem cells

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