The immortal strand hypothesis: still non-randomly segregating opinions
Cairns first suggested a mechanism for protecting the genomes of stem cells (SCs) from replicative errors some 40 years ago when he proposed the immortal strand hypothesis, which argued for the inheritance of a so-called immortal strand by an SC following asymmetric SC divisions. To date, the existe...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2012-06-01
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| Series: | Biomolecular Concepts |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/bmc-2011-0053 |