Current Biology
Volume 8, Issue 5, 26 February 1998, Pages R178-R181
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Telomeres and senescence: The history, the experiment, the future

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Telomere length has been proposed to signal entry into cellular senescence. Expression of the human telomerase subunit, hTERT, in primary cells now shows that these cells bypass senescence.

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CW Greider, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 617 Hunterian Building, 725 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA. e-mail: [email protected].