dimarts, 8 de juliol del 2014

The costs of quiescence, for cars and blood cells




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By Tom Ulrich


My first car was my grandfather's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu. For about two years before my family gave it to me, it sat unused in Grandpa's garage—just enough time for all of the belts and hoses to rot and the battery to trickle down to nothing.


Why am I telling this story? Because it's much like what happens to the DNA in our blood-forming stem cells as we age.



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