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After the restriction point, the cell can be arrested in response to stress stimuli, such as telomere depletion, and a decision between senescence and apoptosis occurs. quiescence CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments.— CiteULike: Everyone's library
The new study of fruit flies by University of Utah biologists is the first to show in animals that losing just one telomere - end of a chromosome - can lead to many abnormalities in a cell's chromosomes, which are strands of DNA that carry genes.— India eNews
The new study of fruit flies is the first to show in animals that losing just one telomere - the end of a chromosome - can lead to many abnormalities in a cell's chromosomes, which are strands of DNA that carry genes.— Health News from Medical News Today
A telomere is made of short sequences of DNA repeated hundreds of times.— Health News from Medical News Today

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