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  • 1Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB), University of Luxembourg,7 Avenue des Hauts-Fourneaux, Esch-sur-Alzette, L-4362 Luxembourg City, Luxembourg; CIC bioGUNE,Bizkaia Technology Park, 801 Building, 48160 Derio, Spain; IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao 48013, Spain; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 141700 Dolgoprudny, Russia.

Trends in Biotechnology
|February 21, 2019
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Keywords:
cellular nichecomputational cell conversion strategyrejuvenationstem celltransplantation

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