Ananda L Roy1, Felipe Sierra2, Kevin Howcroft3

  • 1Office of Strategic Coordination, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiative, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.

Cell
|October 31, 2020
PubMed
まとめ

細胞の衰え 細胞の循環が止まるという状態は 複雑です この研究は5つの主要な研究分野を特定し 衰老の原動力,結果,そして人間の健康に対する 治療的可能性に関する理解を深めようとしています

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