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Blood stem cells may be 'exhausted' in old age, sequencing shows

April 24, 2014
By Sharon Kingman
LONDON – A study of the genome of a woman who lived to the age of 115 years has revealed that people develop many different mutations in their somatic cells during their lifetimes, and that these mutations may not be harmful to health.
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