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Aspects of cellular aging

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

Leonard Hayflick*
Affiliation:
University of California, San Francisco, Medical School, USA
*
Leonard Hayflick, University of California, San Francisco, Medical School, 36991 Greencroft Close, PO Box 89, The Sea Ranch, California 95497, USA.

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Biological gerontology
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