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Induction and Validation of Cellular Senescence in Primary Human Cells
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Author Correction: L1 drives IFN in senescent cells and promotes age-associated inflammation
Marco De Cecco1, Takahiro Ito1, Anna P Petrashen1
1Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
Nature
|July 13, 2019
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